Minnesota Reads

I believe that Charles Baxter is one of the best writers on Earth. If I had to pick which one should sit at the head of the table during a gathering of my top ten, I’d probably just say “Screw it” and make him arm wrestle Haruki Murakami for honors. Let the loser carve the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]