Sure we’ve had an actual member of The Replacements and Charles Baxter (who needs no other disclaimer) answer our six questions. We’ve had friends and bloggers and authors we’ve grown to admire answer the questions. But I can say that without a doubt, posting Mattox Roesch’s answers fills me with a kind of joy like [...]

Interview Billy Lombardo, Charles Baxter, Flannery O'Connor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gustave Flaubert, Hannah Tinti, Jayne Ane Phillips, Louise Erdich, Mattox Roesch, Raymond Carver, Shel Silverstein, Thomas Merton, Virgina Woolf, William Faulkner

Amy Abts joins MN Reads after being suckered into it by Christa (or something like that, I like to imagine it took some cajoling and lots of pretty please with sugar on tops). Amy’s worked at a bookstore for the past ten years and reads two to three books a week. She said she reads [...]

Interview AM Holmes, Anna Sewell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Greil Marcus, John Wray, Margaret Georg, Michelle Tea, Raymond Carver

I’m not going to read the Strib’s review of David Carr’s The Night of the Gun, because I’m currently reading the book and really enjoying it. Sometimes I think if I read reviews they influence how I perceive the book. I like to come up with own ideas first and then see how right or [...]

Book News Andre Dubus, David Carr, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff