Minnesota Reads

Colin Sokolowski author of The Accidental Adult should teach a course in how to deal with surly book bloggers. Seriously. The email he sent to me about his book should be forwarded from author to author and publicist to publicist as the textbook way to get your book noticed. It was short (nice), funny (super [...]

Wow. I just gotta say sometimes fortune shines down on me when I least expect it. As I was pondering what to write here in this intro of David de Young of How Was the Show, I stumbled on Jim Walsh’s excellent, informative piece on de Young for Minn Post. You should go read that, [...]

Sarah Phoenix says books saved her life. What’s not to love about that? She came screaming in from the north on the last Alberta Clipper a few months ago asking if she could write for MN Reads. “Of course,” I said. “Right on,” she said. Or at least that’s how I like to imagine it [...]

I remember buying Norah Labiner’s debut novel, Our Sometime Sister, from the Discover Great Writer’s shelf at the Barnes & Noble back in 1998 and it blowing my mind. I had made a steady habit of choosing from that shelf and many, many of those selections still reside in my collection. Labiner has a new [...]

If you pay close attention to the calendar, you know that poet Tim Nolan did a whole lot of reading all over town earlier this winter. He was supporting his first book of poetry, The Sound of It, published in October. Nolan’s poetry has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, and Ploughshares. Plus, his [...]

If ever MN Reads had a kindred spirit in another website, it would be Minnesota Microphone by Cole Sarar. Minnesota Microphone is a blog dedicated to celebrating and promoting Minnesota’s spoken word scene. Cole started the site because she had no luck trying to figure out when open mics, readings, and things like that were [...]

This week we are celebrating Milkweed Editions’ publication of Fiction on a Stick, an anthology of stories by Minnesota writers, by featuring some of the contributors. Today we’ve got Dominic Saucedo who received a B.A in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A from the University of Minnesota. His fellowships include the SASE/Jerome Foundation Fellowship [...]

This week we are celebrating Milkweed Editions’ publication of Fiction on a Stick, an anthology of stories by Minnesota writers, by featuring some of the contributors. Today we’ve got Kaethe Schwehn, who earned a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared in jubilat, Flim Forum, [...]

We interrupt this week of Best of Lists to bring you a very special series of our 6 Questions interviews. To celebrate Milkweed Editions’ publication of Fiction on a Stick, an anthology of stories by Minnesota writers, we’re going to feature a few of the contributors here on MN Reads. Some of the contributors will [...]

MN Speakers discuss the books they’re reading this summer and how they keep track of them. I just found James Joyce’s short story Araby online. I loved this story so much as like a college sophomore that I decided I would name any future daughter Araby. Thankfully, I have yet to reproduce. The Strib has [...]