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Review: 'Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting,' by Anna Quindlen
NONFICTION: Anna Quindlen's latest book savors the passage to grandparenthood.
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Garrison Keillor's bookstore in St. Paul gets new owner, name
St. Paul native Nick Ballas has bought the store at Snelling and Grand avenues and renamed it Next Chapter Booksellers.
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Author Marlon James of Macalester College named one of Time's 100 most influential people
James, who teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2019 by Time magazine.
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Minneapolis publisher Milkweed Editions a finalist for Pulitzer -- twice
"Rising" by Elizabeth Rush and "feeld" by Jos Charles were finalists in nonfiction and poetry.
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Erin Lee Carr remembers her wild and loving dad, David Carr, in new memoir
NONFICTION: Journalist David Carr's daughter Erin Lee Carr intertwines his story with hers.
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Review: 'My Coney Island Baby,' by Billy O'Callaghan
FICTION: Irish novelist offers a wistful, unhurried look at a crossroads in middle age.
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Review: 'The Gulf,' by Belle Boggs
FICTION: A comic novel about a writing school for evangelical Christians.
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Review: 'Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family,' by Anika Fajardo
NONFICTION: Anika Fajardo reunites with a father she has not seen since childhood.
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Review: 'Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing,' by Robert Caro
NONFICTION: Robert Caro set aside work on the final volume of his LBJ biography to publish a memoir about his decades of work on the late president and Robert Moses.
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Review: 'Normal People,' by Sally Rooney
FICTION: Friends are drawn to each other, break up and get back together again and again.
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Newbies, mostly, take home Minnesota Book Awards in a night of upsets
Some of the state's best-known writers were shut out on a night of upsets.
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Review: 'Notes From a Young Black Chef,' by Kwame Onwuachi, with Joshua David Stein
NONFICTION: Successes, setbacks and recipes from a young black chef.
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