Rachel Coyne is a novelist and poet who resides in Lindstrom, Minnesota. Coyne is a graduate of the Perpich Center for Arts Education, a public arts highschool in Golden Valley, Minnesota and Macalester College in St. Paul. She is a devotee of Pablo Neruda, a lover of Don Williams songs and a collector of vintage [...]

Interview, MN Authors Ayn Rand, Ernest Hemingway, George Sand, Jennifer Megyesi, Judy Pangman, Kwei Quartey, Leo Tolstoy, Pablo Neruda, Rachel Coyne

We have Christa to thank for sending Will our way, you’ve probably seen his reviews already. We like a reviewer whose eager to get started. And, even though he claims to have enjoyed Things I’ve Learned from the Women Who’ve Dumped Me, we’re happy to have him here reviewing books even if we question his [...]

Interview F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geraldine Brooks, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Miguel Cervantes, Richard Holmes, Susan Jeffers, Tom Perotta

I read a lot of author’s about pages. It’s a job hazard. So when I say I found David Housewright’s about page funny and engaging (it’s full of newspaper funniness), I know what I’m talking about. It only makes sense, afterall, Housewright is an Edgar Award Winner (for his novel Penance and a Minnesota Book [...]

Interview, MN Authors Dashiell Hammet, David Housewright, E.L. Doctorow, Leo Tolstoy, Patrick O'Brien, Robert B. Parker, T.H. White

David Fingerman is the author Edging Past Reality, a collection of horror-themed short stories published late last year by Two Harbors Press. Before becoming a full-time writer, Fingerman worked in the Hennepin County Court System for over twenty years.
On his website, Fingerman talks about how he switched his major from Journalism to Speech/Communications to graduate [...]

Interview, MN Authors David Fingerman, Harlan Ellison, John Meany, Leo Tolstoy, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Stuart Kaminsky

There are two ways to read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: in a dead sprint, where you try to cram as much of it into your brain as quickly as possible before you lose steam, or you take advantage of the tiny, bite-sized chapters, and read a piece a day for the rest of your life.
I fell [...]

Novel Leo Tolstoy

Julie Landsman is a writer and consultant. She has published numerous books and articles on diversity and education. Her newest book, Growing Up White: A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Racism, has just been released by Rowman and Littlefield. Julie taught in the Minneapolis Public Schools for 25 years. She has also taught education and creative [...]

Interview, MN Authors A.A. Milne, Dennis Lehane, Julie Landsman, Kenneth Grahame, Leo Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston

Ben Kimball is a father of two who works full-time, recently graduated from Augsburg with a degree in Theology (I think), and will start Luther Seminary in the fall (which is next week, I guess). Yeah. Besides doing all that, he’s also made it his goal to read the 1001 books you must read before [...]

Interview Alex Haley, E.J. Dionne Jr, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J.D. Salinger, John Neihardt, Leo Tolstoy, Thich Nhat Hanh, Virginia Wolff