Sure we’ve had an actual member of The Replacements and Charles Baxter (who needs no other disclaimer) answer our six questions. We’ve had friends and bloggers and authors we’ve grown to admire answer the questions. But I can say that without a doubt, posting Mattox Roesch’s answers fills me with a kind of joy like [...]

Interview Billy Lombardo, Charles Baxter, Flannery O'Connor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gustave Flaubert, Hannah Tinti, Jayne Ane Phillips, Louise Erdich, Mattox Roesch, Raymond Carver, Shel Silverstein, Thomas Merton, Virgina Woolf, William Faulkner

Saul and Patsy are in love. (Maybe too much so, according to Saul’s mother, who thinks it’s show-offy to be so in love and that it makes other people uncomfortable). They live in a small town in Michigan, off a dirt road, where they have moved from the east coast because of Saul’s whim to [...]

Fiction, MN Authors Charles Baxter, Novel

Somewhere Christa is squealing with delight at the fact that Charles Baxter has answered these six questions. She’s a fan. You might know Baxter from novels like Saul and Patsy, Feast of Love, or his latest, The Soul Thief. Many might recognize him as the man who wrote Burning Down the House, a book of [...]

Interview, MN Authors Charles Baxter, George Eliot, Louise Gluck, Stacey D'Erasmo, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare

The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter: Despite the fact that Charles Baxter induces a plot amnesia that always makes me forget what his books are about within a week of reading them, I am always keenly aware while I’m reading them that this man is a word genius. In this one, Nathanial Mason’s life story [...]

Best of Best Books of 2008, Charles Baxter, Chelsea Handler, Chuck Palahniuk, David Carr, David Sedaris, Haruki Murakami, Jean Heglund, Jennifer Egan, Mary Gaitskill, Sloane Crosley, Stephenie Meyer