The Library Foundation presents a live telecast interview between Jay-Z and Cornel West from the New York Public Library. Buy a signed copy of Jay-Z’s new book Decoded to guarantee your seat in the Pohlad Auditorium 6:00pm, November 15, at the Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall. Signed books can be picked at the Library … Continue reading See Jay-Z & get a signed copy of Decoded

Explore the Quetico–Boundary Waters with two seasoned paddlers--one a writer, one a photographer--Thursday, November 4, at 7:30pm, at Magers & Quinn. Details are here.Canoe country has a strong hold on the Minnesota imagination. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and neighboring Quetico Provincial Park are still a remote wilderness where lynx, moose, and gray wolves … Continue reading Paddle North

Bruce Machart's striking debut is a stunning novel that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, with its crushingly tyrannical father and stark, sparse Texas landscape. This story grabs you by the throat from its first words and refuses to let go. In Machart’s hands, frontier Texas is as unforgettable a character as are the Czech … Continue reading The Wake of Forgiveness