J.P. White already has four books of poetry under his belt and now he’s celebrating the release of his first novel Every Boat Turns South. You have plenty of chances to celebrate with him in the next week or so. He’ll be reading at 7 p.m. tonight at The Loft 1011 Washington Ave S # [...]

Interview, MN Authors Cormac McCarthy, Eric Ambler, Ernest Hemingway, Hannah Tinti, J.P. White, Nikos Kazantzakis, Russell Banks, Saul Bellow, Walt Whitman

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