Minnesota Reads

I have to admit, I have a bit of the fangirl aura about me this week. I’m an avid MPR listener so I’m super pumped to present this week’s interviewee. Anyone who listens to MPR on their drive to work in the mornings is probably familiar with Cathy Wurzer (or at least her voice) the [...]

Yeah, I cannot deny that I’m pretty excited to have Jake Mohan writing for MN Reads. I first discovered Jake’s writing years ago on his personal blog The Dependent Clause. His writing is so good that I cyberstalked him at Reveille and Utne. But now, I won’t have to look too far to find his [...]

Here’s a dirty family secret for you: the women in my family have a thing for weathermen. Dave Dahl, Paul Douglas, Kenny Barlow, even Sven the pocket meteorologist. For a long time I didn’t get it. Then I discovered Dude Weather and the clouds parted and the sun began to shine. Jimmy “Dutch” Gaines is [...]

Max Ross is a local writer whose work has appeared in Reveille and The Rake. He’s also writes short stories, the kind of stories that are so original teachers at The Loft talk about how original they are even when he’s not in the class. You can read Max all the time over at the [...]

The ever-awesome Girl Detective points out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “A Night at the Fair” a story about the great Minnesota State Fair. “Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta” by Kate Braverman is one of those stories where you think you know what’s going on and then WHOA something totally different is going on. It’s [...]

Christa is one of my favorite writers and I’m so honored that she’s going to participate here. Her blog blah-blah-blahler should zoom to the top of your must-read list. Not only is Christa the funniest woman in Duluth, but she’s also wry and observant, and she sees life a little bit differently than everyone else [...]

Kelly is a writer and a high school English teacher who is on her way to becoming a funeral director (I know!). Her short stories are quiet, controlled and very, very twisted (she once wrote about a woman who add cremains to a hotdish). Someday someone will be smart enough to publish one of them [...]