The Big Bang Book Club meets Tuesday, March 24, at Grumpy's Bar & Grill to discuss Neal Shubin’s book Your Inner Fish. Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard … Continue reading Something Fishy

Jill Jepson is assistant professor of English at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches creative writing and linguistics. She has taught writing for 15 years and is an award-winning research anthropologist. She also offers online writing workshops. For more information, visit http://www.writingthewhirlwind.com.Join us at Magers & Quinn Booksellers on … Continue reading Jill Jepson discusses Writing as a Sacred Path

Tomorrow night the Library Foundation of Hennepin County (formerly the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library) continues its "Talk of the Stacks" program. David Plotz is the editor of slate.com. Contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Washington Post, and GQ, Plotz won the National Press Club's Hume Award for … Continue reading Talking in the Library