The finalists for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards have been announced, you can see the entire list over at MinnPost. While I wish all the finalists hearty congratulations and the best of luck, I gotta give some mad props to the authors we’ve been fortunate to cover here on MN Reads: David Housewright was nominated Jelly’s Gold, and answered our [...]

Before we get started here I want to tell you that Dobby Gibson is reading at 7 p.m. Friday (Jan. 9) at The Loft (Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave) to celebrate the launch of his latest poetry collection Skirmish which comes out today! Gibson, who lives in Minneapolis, has an MFA from Indiana University, been nominated for the Pushcart twice, [...]