Yep, Saturday October 15 is Rain Taxi’s annual Twin Cities Book Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. over at Minneapolis Community & Technical College. Have you ever been? You should go. This shindig is…
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Labor Day reads
Since I have many tedious and time-consuming work projects to complete before summer’s end, MN Reads is going to take a good long Labor Day break. Aside from working, I’ll be reading Hopeless Savages Greatest…
Tune in today at noon for Writing Minnesota on MPR
image stolen from MPR’s State of the Arts blog Looking for something to do while you chow down your lunch today? You should tune into MPR’s Writing Minnesota special. Don’t worry if you don’t have…
Shortlist for Minnesota Book Awards
In case you live under a rock or are trapped in a snowbank, here’s the shortlist for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards. Congratulations to all the nominees, and, hell, anyone who published a book this…
Happy Holidays from MN Reads
MN Reads is taking the rest of the week off to celebrate Christmas with our friends and family. When we come back we’ll be sharing our favorite (and not so favorite) books we read in…
Pick up a present for a book lover from Rain Taxi’s benefit auction
Oh yes booknerds/booksnobs and the people who love them, it’s that time of year again — Rain Taxi’s Benefit auction. This annual event not only gives you a chance to support the nonprofit Rain Taxi…
Twin Cities Book Festival & FallCon this weekend
It’s a gonna be a big, big Saturday for Twin Cities booknerds of all kinds. In Minneapolis we’ve got the Twin Cities Book Festival. The Festival features all kinds of bookish delights including readings and…
Swati Avasthi’s Blog Tour in support of preventing domestic violence
Swati Avasthi, the MN author of Split, has just embarked on a unique blog tour. During the month of October, which is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Swati is going to be traveling around the Internet…
Plan ahead, next week is jam-packed with lit events
I made a crack Tuesday while waiting for Colson Whitehead to read, that it was like a literary Super Tuesday in the Twin Cities. That night, at various venues around town, Tao Lin, J.C. Hallman,…
Listen to Ben on MPR’s Art Hounds
In case you missed it (I did) Ben was on MPR’s Art Hounds today talking about Linde LeGarde Grover’s The Dance Boots and her reading tomorrow night at Birchbark Books. You can listen to the…
Help us settle this debate
It seems most of the MN Reads’ writers are on vacation. And I’m in the middle of about four books. So instead of a review, I’m going to ask you to help settle a raging…
We’ve got winners
Congratulations to the winners in our MN Reads’ 2nd Anniversary giveaway! Thanks to Random.org these people were selected: Grand Prize (Books, Buttons & a Replacement Press T-shirt) #2 Beth First Prize (Books & Buttons) #8…