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Wondering what books were in the local newspapers this weekend? Wonder no more!
The Star Tribune featured an article about Erin Morgenstern and her book The Night Circus as part of the Talking Volumes series. Other titles mentioned in the Variety section include Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young and ...
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In prestigious literary award news, Hilary Mantel recently won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies, her second novel about the life of Thomas Cromwell. Mantel is only the third author to win the prize twice (she also won it for Wolf Hall--her first novel about Cromwell.) The other two that have won twice are J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey.
Looking for more award winners? A great place to start is ...
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Here's a listing of the books profiled in our local newspapers this week!
The Pioneer Press had an article about a new poetry collection called Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse by Jane Yolen. Zadie Smith's NW: A Novel was also reviewed in an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And lastly, The Gershwins and Me by Michael Feinstein, who is speaking in Minneapolis on October 25th as part of the Westminster Town Hall Forum.
And on to Minneapolis! At the...
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Have you ever read a book and found a minor character particularly interesting? Wished their story could have been told more fully? So do some authors!
From Long John Silver and Tiny Tim to Prince Charming and Boba Fett, we've put together a great List of Secondary Characters who get their very own books devoted to their stories.
This fascinating subgenre finds authors taking on the challenge of providing a full story to a character who had a small part in the classic story. Some other authors choose to give a voice to characters who didn’t have the chance to tell their side of the story (mostly villains, unsurprisingly.) The best of these stories do a...
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Local author Peter Geye has been getting terrific buzz about his new novel: The Lighthouse Road.
Reporting from the Heartland Fall Forum, (the Midwest Independent Booksellers and Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Associations annual conference, Publishers Weekly wrote that "If there was one book that created a huge buzz at the show, it had to be The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye. Booksellers were...
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