Every other week we are inundated with stories about the death of the novel and the book and the short story. On the opposite week we get stories about how someone is bringing it all back to life. Most of these stories are predicated on the idea that people don’t read anymore. Somewhere along the [...]

Interview Bryan Lee O'Malley, David Foster Wallace, Jeff Kamin, Lev Grossman, Mark Twain, Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is at his best when he writes about music. He has that inexplicable ability to convey what music means in a way that seems incredibly personal to him and yet universal at the same time. He’s so good when he writes about music that it often seems like he’s the first one to [...]

Fiction dick lit, Nick Hornby, Novel

Hello, allow me to introduce our newest MN Reads’ reviewer, LeAnn Suchy. She found MN Reads on twitter (@mnreads) and didn’t believe being a reviewer was as easy as asking. See, it really is that easy! LeAnn’s a librarian from St. Cloud who recently moved to our lovely Twin Cities to take classes at The [...]

Interview Beverly Cleary, Jane Austen, Jeffrey Toobin, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Mitchell, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Reif Larsen, Scott Westerfeld, Sharon Olds, William Shakespeare

There is something funny about doing this, posting a review of Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby on the Internet, an act that is at the crux of his sixth novel. Annie and Duncan live in a sleepy town in Northern England and are in a relationship that is stuck on autopilot. Annie isn’t feeling so [...]

Fiction Nick Hornby, Novel