Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program today rebroadcast last month's Talking Volumes interview with Sherman Alexie. Alexie is the author most recently of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, as well as the earlier books Flight, Smoke Signals, and The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, all of which deal with presentday Native … Continue reading Without Reservations
Author: Anders
We’re Staying, Thanks
In the middle of last month, Entrepreneur magazine posted an article listing the ten businesses it expects will be extinct in ten years. Used bookstores were on that list, along with crop dusters and the manufacturers of film for cameras. They say the internet will kill used bookstores. We say, Who do you think is … Continue reading We’re Staying, Thanks
Funny Stuff
Joe Keenan has one this year's Thurber Prize for American Humor. I'll admit I hadn't heard of the Thurber Prize until now, but even so I'm going to take the opportunity to tell you the Joe Keenan's books are smart and light and funny and really worth a read.We don't have his prize-winning book My … Continue reading Funny Stuff
Musings from Magers and Quinn 