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What to read when you're stuck at home
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Review: 'Sansei and Sensibility: Stories,' by Karen Tei Yamashita
FICTION: "Sansei and Sensibility" explores nuances of Japanese-American life.
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Review: 'Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original,' by Mitchell Nathanson
NONFICTION: An affectionate look at Jim Bouton, baseball player and author of the seminal book "Ball Four."
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Review: 'The End of October,' by Lawrence Wright
FICTION: In Lawrence Wright's harrowing thriller, a deadly virus sweeps the world.
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Reviews: 'Year of the Rabbit,' 'Paying the Land' and 'Glass Town'
GRAPHIC NOVELS: A family memoir, in-depth historical documentary and literary fantasy take readers to different lands.
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St. Louis Park man who was pen pal to Jackie Robinson helps keep No. 42's story alive
Ron Rabinovitz has co-written a children's book, "Always Jackie," just the way Robinson signed his letters to a young Ronnie.
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Review: 'All Adults Here,' by Emma Straub
FICTION: Three generations of a family come to terms with changes and the past.
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Review: 'In Praise of Paths,' by Torbjørn Ekelund, translated from the Norwegian by Becky L. Crook
NONFICTION: A Norwegian writer finds his life is utterly changed when he stops driving and begins walking everywhere.
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St. Paul writer wins Edgar Award for her YA book
Naomi Kritzer's "Catfishing on CatNet" just won a Minnesota Book Award, too.
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Marlon James, Kao Kalia Yang among Minnesota Book Award winners
Honors were presented Tuesday at a livestreamed virtual event.
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Review: "How to Feed a Dictator," by Witold Szablowski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
NONFICTION: Fascinating interviews by a Polish journalist with the chefs who worked for some of the world's most notorious despots.
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5 Minnesota writers receive McKnight grants
This year's awards went to three poets, a spoken-word artist and a writer of children's books.
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Around the Region
- Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' tops list of most criticized library books for third straight year
- Top publisher teams with top maker of bilingual materials
- Nothing compares: Sinead O'Connor memoir coming out in June
- For Japan's star poet Tanikawa, it's fun, not work, at 90
- Aliu lands book deal on how he confronted racism in hockey
- Chris Hillman's musical life from Byrds to Burritos and more
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- Chicago 7-year-old raises money for hospital's pandemic gear
- Bob Woodward to take on final days of Trump's presidency
- Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
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- Spring's hot gift book features gorgeous found-nature photos
- Jane Smiley hits again with 'Lucky' but what the what is that ending?
- Review: 'The Covenant of Water,' by Abraham Verghese
- Biography details what 'Rulebreaker' Barbara Walters did to get to the top
- 'Tell Me What I Am' is an arresting, occasionally unbelievable novel
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