Loree Rackstraw met Kurt Vonnegut in 1966, when she was a graduate student in his fiction writing class at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. What started as a brief love affair between the then-unknown author and his student soon matured into a joyful, lifelong friendship—and in her new book, Love as always, Kurt, Rackstraw distills four … Continue reading Six Degrees of Kurt Vonnegut

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

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 A One-Night Stand in the Heartland features an archive of original, previously-unpublished photographs shot by gifted and then 17-year-old … Continue reading Scream and Shout