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,…
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Upcoming Event of Note: Lorna Landvik benefit for The Loft
Lorna Landvik benefit for The Loft Literary Center If you think about it, if it weren’t for The Loft, this site wouldn’t even exist. I love The Loft with a passion I usually reserve for…
Upcoming events of note: Zine Fest & Zak Sally CD Release
Sure we have the Calendar which has a list of all the literary happenings around town, but there were a few I wanted to give some extra props. First up is this weekend (that’d be…
MN Reads’ Melissa on MPR’s Art Hounds
In case you missed it, our own Melissa Slachetka was on MPR’s Art Hounds yesterday talking about Norah Labiner’s German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons who will be reading at 7 p.m. on…
PSA: mnLIT’s flash fiction deadline is Friday
Editor’s Note: I got an e-mail from Jay at Magers & Quinn this morning asking me if I’d post this last call for submission to mnLIT’s flash fiction contest. I thought, why the hell not?…
Happy Holidays from MN Reads
MN Reads is going to take a break for the holidays. I’ll be celebrating with my family and coping with Christmas Eve dinner hosting anxiety. Also I hope to spend a lot of time reading…
This is where the recap of the Sarah Vowell reading was gonna go
Only that shit was bananas. Seriously, she’s too a big a name to try and shove her reading between the art books and the escalators at the Barnes & Noble in Edina. I’m trying not…
Holy Hannah! Junot Diaz reading October 29
I just spotted this on Girl Detective (I told y’all she was awesome): October 29: Junot Diaz, “We Are the New America: A Reading,” 7:30 pm Diaz published his debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life…
The literary equivalent of Rocktober
A few weeks ago over at How Was The Show, the musicgeeks were getting all hopped up about all the great music coming to Minnesota in October, I mean Rocktober. I was just updating the…