Nearly a decade ago, Philip Connors ditched his job as an editor at the Wall Street Journal to spend his summers sitting in a glass-walled perch, 10,000 feet above sea level, watching for smoke. As a fire lookout, Connors follows in a venerable literary tradition--Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey, Norman Mclean, and Gary Snyder were all … Continue reading Lookout for Philip Connors
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A Trip to the Islands
Hear a singular Caribbean voice without leaving Minneapolis. Tiphanie Yanique discusses "How to Escape from a Leper Colony" with Marlon James--Sunday, April 3, at 4:0pm, at Magers & Quinn Booksellers.Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in her nuanced debut, How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories, set mostly in the … Continue reading A Trip to the Islands
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Voting for the City Pages' Best of the Cities Readers' Poll 2011 ends March 30. You can write in your favorite bookstore (new and used) in categories 51 and 52. The full list is here.--David E
Musings from Magers and Quinn 