The movie version of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Choke will be screened at the Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival. There's only one showing (11:30pm on Saturday, April 26), so mark your calendars now. Details are here.Choke won the Special Jury Prize for the work by an ensemble cast at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. it stars … Continue reading Choke at MSPIFF
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Down from the North
Arnaldur Indridason is Iceland's most popular crime novelist. His novel Jar City has sold 30,000 copies--that's one for every ten Icelanders. Now the movie version of his bestseller is coming to the Twin Cities as part of the Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival. The movie is directed by Baltasar Kromakur, who also made 101 Reykjavik.Screenings … Continue reading Down from the North
Up and Coming
Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff, a collection of short stories set in small-town Ohio, is the subject of an interview on NPR. Pollock talks about coming to writing slowly; he started by typing out stories he liked, so as to learn their structure and rhythms.Pollock will be in town reading from his book along … Continue reading Up and Coming
Musings from Magers and Quinn 