Minnesota Reads

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 # [...]

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 [...]