Under the headline "Why book tours are passé,the Christian Science Monitor frets that "the traditional author tour has been in decline."Oh yeah? Tell that to the standing-room-only crowd who came last night to hear Cass Dalglish discuss her book Humming the Blues.We buck the trend all the time. Check out our events page for details … Continue reading Not Dead Yet
Big, Beautiful Fish (Book)
MinnPost's Amy Goetzman has a crush on Tom Dickson's new book The Great Minnesota Fish Book. There's no other way to explain her rave review on MinnPost. For example, she writes, "The book is gorgeous. So gorgeous, in fact, that I suspect a majority of copies will live on coffee tables in lavish northern Minnesota … Continue reading Big, Beautiful Fish (Book)
From New York with Love
The latest issue of The New Yorker has a review of To Siberia by Per Petterson. Petterson's first two books In the Wake and Out Stealing Horses were surprise hits.The review is quite a love letter: "Petterson could be labelled a “prose stylist,” except you never feel that he is styling anything; you feel that … Continue reading From New York with Love
Musings from Magers and Quinn 