To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of his award-winning collection of short stories Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower will read at Magers & Quinn Booksellers (3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis; 612/822-4611).Well's Tower's book was a smash hit when it was first published in 2009. Michiko Kakutani said in The New York Times, … Continue reading Wells Tower reads from Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Mark Wansa reads from his novel The Linden and the Oak, Thursday, February 4, at 7:30pm at Magers & Quinn Booksellers.The culmination of nine years of work, including research and interviews in six countries, The Linden and the Oak is the epic story of two families and an ill-fated romance set against three very different … Continue reading The Linden and the Oak

Four of the authors in Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing--William Alexander, David Schwartz, Kelly Barnhill, and Alan DeNiro--are from from the Twin Cities. You can meet them Friday, January 29, 7:30pm, at M&Q. Details are here.To whet your appetite, here's the opening of one of the short stories from the collection, "After Verona" … Continue reading "After Verona"