As I am typing this intro, Steven Hyden is on 89.3 The Current talking about his new book Your Favorite Band is Killing Me and his reading at 7 p.m. tonight at Magers & Quinn…
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6 Questions We Always Ask: Stephen J. McInerny, author
This week on 6 Questions We Always Ask we offer up answers by a writer after my own heart. A copywriter by day and a fiction writer by later that same day. It sounds exactly…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Charlie Quimby, author
Charlie Quimby, author of the just-released (today, in fact, yay!) novel Monument Road is going to the hardest working man in MN letters. Seriously, take a gander at that list of upcoming events below. Wow….
6 Questions We Always Ask: Khary Jackson, poet
On his About Me page, Khary Jackson writes: “I am a poet, teaching artist, playwright, actor, dancer and sometime musician. I am a Detroit native, currently representing the Twin Cities. I aim to be a…
6 Questions We Always Ask: David J. Schwartz, author
Today is the launch of Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib a new Kindle serial by all-around awesome David J. Schwartz. This harkens back to the old-timey days when authors, like Charles…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Thomas Maltman, author
I am stealing this lovely bio from Thomas Maltman’s website because as I type this it’s 3:18 on a Friday and all my brain cells have decided the weekend began eighteen minutes ago. But before…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Andrea Cremer, author
Andrea Cremer is a New York Times and international bestselling author, who is celebrating the release of Rift the prequel to her bestelling Nightshade series Andrea spent her childhood daydreaming while roaming the forests and…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Rosanne Bane, author
If you’re at all familiar with The Loft, you’re probably familiar with Rosanne Bane’s name. She’s taught at The Loft for twenty-five years! Holy cow, that’s impressive. Rosanne teaches classes about getting in the writing…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Amy Leach, author
Amy Leach’s work has been published in A Public Space, Tin House, Orion, the Los Angeles Review, and many others. She has been recognized with the Whiting Writers’ Award, Best American Essays selections, a Rona…
6 Questions We Always Ask: John Roche, poet
Today we finish off our trifecta of poets answering our questions with John Roche. He’s not a Minnesotan, but we’re bending the rules since he’ll be reading at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Magers & Quinn…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Freya Manfred, poet
Freya Manfred is the author of six books of poetry as well as the literary memoir Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers, which was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award and an Iowa Historical Society Benjamin…
6 Questions We Always Ask: Jules Nyquist, poet
Since poet (and former Minnesotan) Jules Nyquist is reading at Magers & Quinn this week (and because my allergy meds haven’t kicked in), I’m going to steal what they wrote about her: Jules Nyquist is…