Everybody welcome Casey, our newest MN Reads reviewer! Casey has decided to join our ranks even though I referred to him as Corey in our first email exchange. That shows determination and moxie, and we…
Posts tagged Michael Chabon
Will A’s Top Ten
1. State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey: I love stories that create a sense of place, so this anthology of 50 essays by 50 authors, each about…
6 questions we always ask — Jessica Hopper, rocking author
Even though Jessica Hopper lives in Chicago, and thus far we’ve only asked Minnesotans the 6 questions, we made an exception because she went to high school here in the land of 10,000 lakes. Hopper…
6 questions we always ask — Scott Muskin, author
It’s probably not cool to admit this, but I don’t care. I am going to read Scott Muskin’s debut novel The Annunciation of Hank Meyerson, Mama’s Boy and Scholar based solely on his answers to…
Grady Tripp’s excellent adventure
I really wanted to dislike Wonder Boys. I even tried to dislike it. I mean, here it was a book about writers (barf) by Michael Chabon (barf) who kind of gives me the willies (I…
Is that a mystery in your pocket?
Art Bechstein has just graduated from college, broken up with his girlfriend, and has an entire summer with which to play. When his father, vaguely identified as a gangster, asks him about his plans, Art…
6 questions we always ask — Girl Detective
Girl Detective, is one of those fabulous blogs that is tough to identify — part litblog, part foodblog, part momblog, and part indefinable awesomeness. It’s written by the Girl Detective, a Minneapolis writer and mother…