Meet the man who met the Beatles in Minneapolis. Author and photographer Bill Carlson will be at Magers & Quinn Booksellers Sunday, April 19, at 4:00pm, sharing his memories and discussing his new book. The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland features an archive of original, previously-unpublished photographs shot by gifted and then 17-year-old … Continue reading Scream and Shout

Joshua Beckman reads from his new poetry collection Take It at 7:30pm tonight, at Magers & Quinn Booksellers.A collection by one of poetry's genuinely necessary voices, Take It is a gift of expansive and expressive generosity. The poems in Take It masterfully combine traditional and contemporary concerns and speech in attending to a degraded, yet … Continue reading New Poetry at Magers & Quinn

People Are Unappealing tells the strange, funny, and sometimes filthy stories of Sara Barron’s twisted suburban upbringing and deranged attempt at taking the Big Apple by storm–first as an actor (then a waiter), then a dancer (then a waiter), then a comic (then a waiter). It’s there that she meets the ex-boyfriend turned street clown. … Continue reading Catch a Rising Star