“Half my life ago, I killed a girl.”So begins Darin Strauss' searing memoir Half a Life. What begins as a personal tale of a tragic event and ends up opening into the story of how our lives are about defining moments, how we are affected by them, how they shape us. It is the true … Continue reading Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Magers & Quinn Booksellers and Quatrefoil Library present two nights of GLBT readings--7:30pm, Tuesday, June 21, and Thursday, June 23. Four authors visit Magers & Quinn during Pride Week. Their work--history, fiction, memoir, and essays--showcase the GLBT experience both past and present.7:30pm, Tuesday, June 21:Will Fellows discusses Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a … Continue reading Pride Week Readings, Pt 2

"Make no mistake about it. R. M. Ryan's poems are big and baggy, novelistic and comprehensive. They bulge with plunder," said Robert Dana, former Poet Laureate of Iowa. You can meet Rick Ryan when he visits M&Q--7:30pm, Monday, June 20.Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the poems in Vaudeville in the Dark range from an elegy on … Continue reading Poetry that Brings You the World