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Wordplay festival in Minneapolis is readers' heaven
Thousands flock to downtown Minneapolis for event featuring all things literary.
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Award-winning Minneapolis writer recounts harrowing Lyft ride in viral tweets
Was Kelly Barnhill's Houston Lyft driver trying to run up the bill? Or something else?
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Review: 'Machines Like Me,' by Ian McEwan
FICTION: A richly inventive novel in which two lovers find their lives turned around by a synthetic human.
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What's your favorite spot to read, and why?
We all have our favorite spots, for all kinds of reasons, and they may change with the seasons or over time.
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Review: 'Girl Gone Missing,' by Marcie R. Rendon
FICTION: When young women begin disappearing from Moorhead State, Cash Blackbear sets out to find them.
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Review: 'A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father,' by David Maraniss
NONFICTION: An acclaimed biographer turns his gaze onto his own family, and his father's fervent political life.
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REVIEW: 'Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,' by Casey Cep
NONFICTION: After decades of silence, novelist Harper Lee set out to write a nonfiction book about a serial killer.
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Navigating the Wordplay festival: Writers not to miss
Stephen King is just one of 100-plus writers at the inaugural book fest. Here's our guide to navigating the array of alternatives, geared to your interests.
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Ruth Reichl's memoir shows the egregious excess of Gourmet magazine
A new memoir by its former editor-in-chief shines a light on the world of high-end magazines -- before the financial market tanked.
Music
Re-live the 1980s heyday of Minnesota music and comedy in a new photo book
Writer Martin Keller and photographer Greg Helgeson walked "the thin-grooved line between fandom and journalism," as chronicled in "Hijinx and Hearsay."
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Review: 'What My Mother and I Don't Talk About,' edited by Michele Filgate
NONFICTION: This collection of artful essays about sensitive subjects speaks volumes.
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Wordplay is coming. Here's how you can get involved in Twin Cities' biggest book festival
Everything you need to know about the inaugural Wordplay festival next weekend in Minneapolis.
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Reviews: 'Pictures of Longing,' by Sigrid Lien, and 'When Brooklyn Was Queer,' by Hugh Ryan
More than 250 remarkable photos taken mostly by Norwegians show lives of immigrants.
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Review: 'The Club,' by Takis Wurger, translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
FICTION: A young boxer confronts privilege and seeks revenge in this gripping, globally acclaimed debut.
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Review: 'Mama's Boy: A Story From Our Americas,' by Dustin Lance Black
NONFICTION: Oscar winner recalls childhood of hardship and abuse and seeks healing.
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