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Club Book to bring in a cool dozen writers for spring
The spring lineup for the free, now-virtual writers series includes 12 renowned authors.
Special spring Talking Volumes series to focus on race
Four writers of color will discuss their work in the context of race in America.
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Review: 'Floating in a Most Peculiar Way,' by Louis Chude-Sokei
NONFICTION: A Boston academic — and a refugee from Biafra — examines his own life to understand what it means in America to be from Africa.
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Review: 'Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies,' by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
FICTION: Seven beings serve as Mashkawaji, a fabulous creature that is frozen in ice, in this extraordinary novel.
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Review: 'As You Were,' by David Tromblay
NONFICTION: A Duluth native recalls a harrowing childhood in this nonlinear memoir.
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Review: 'Radiant: The Dancer, the Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light,' by Liz Heinecke
NONFICTION: An unlikely and delightful friendship sprang up between two of Belle Époque Paris' most revolutionary women.
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Review: 'The Removed,' by Brandon Hobson
FICTION: A compassionate novel about the aftermath of the racially motivated shooting of a Cherokee teenager.
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Minneapolis writer a finalist for two PEN America awards
Kawai Strong Washburn a finalist for most original and best debut.
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Review: 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,' by George Saunders
NONFICTION: George Saunders' book analyzing Russian short fiction is full of joy and surprises.
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Review: 'My Year Abroad,' by Chang-rae Lee
FICTION: Chang-rae Lee's propulsive dark comedy re-creates a Dantean descent into a globalism teetering on disaster.
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Review: 'Bina: A Novel in Warnings,' by Anakana Schofield
FICTION: A bleakly comic feminist outcry explores the absurdity of the expectations placed on women.
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