The scariest night of the year requires some preparation. Most people turn to horror movies to provide Halloween spirit, but to do so is to ignore the...
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Minnesota Public Radio's Kerri Miller will kick off another season of the Talking Volumes series on October 7th, when she'll be joined by James Ellroy...
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The Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association is comprised of 100 book vendors from the American midwest and Canada. They'll hold their 19th annual...
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Minneapolis is home to an array of innovative book clubs that are founded on the idea that, contrary to most educational institutions' beliefs, a bar...
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With Mother’s Day approaching, our thoughts turn to mushy greeting cards, handprints immortalized in plaster, and jewelry she’ll pretend...
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Remember when you were a kid and reading was a spectacular form of escapism? When I got my hands on a great book, it went everywhere with me: boring...
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I’ve spent my adult life laboring to avoid any job that would result in staring at the gray fabric walls of a cubicle. For this reason, it was...
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I recently renewed my library card. It had been eight or nine years since I’d had one, and I decided that if I was going to write a column about...
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There’s nothing like reinforcing antiquated stereotypes to celebrate a nation’s culture. In the case of St. Patrick’s Day, everyone,...
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Change has come to the Minneapolis social/literary scene. Gone are the days when joining a book club meant donning a sweater set and pledging...
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