Nicole Helget is the author of the memoir The Summer of Ordinary Ways (which I haven’t read), and her first novel, The Turtle Catcher, was released in February by Owen Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
It’s a stark, brutal, beautiful novel set in Southern Minnesota during the (mostly) during WWI (my full review). The first chapter of The [...]

Interview, MN Authors Ernest Hemingway, Harry Crews, Junot Diaz, Miguel Cervantes, Nate LeBoutillier, Nicole Helget, Tim O'Brien, Walt Whitman, William Faulkner