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Star Tribune Books If you've ever been curious about what it's like to be a newspaper books editor (and who hasn't been?), hop on over to the Reading Minnesota blog. I'll tell you all you want to know.
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Featuring adult and children's books written by Minnesota authors/illustrators and celebrating Minnesota bookstores, reviewers, publishers and libraries.
Star Tribune Books And--how could I forget?--also coming Sunday, a review of Garrison Keillor's latest book, "A Christmas Blizzard." His fourth this year; what energy that man has.
Star Tribune Books Also coming Sunday: A new bio of Molly Ivins, that rabblerouser. And Paul Auster. And Mary Karr (who is coming to town next week). And Masha Hamilton (ditto). Oh, such literary riches.
Star Tribune Books So where are the great women writers of 2009? Ppublishers Weekly's list of the top ten books of the year includes only male authors. A reader forwarded me this piece in the Guardian, about the outrage. What writers are missing? Lorrie Moore? Hiltary Mantel? Alice Munro? Or do you agree with the PW list?
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Campaigners incensed after Publishers Weekly's top 10 titles of 2009 ignores female authors
Star Tribune Books Coming Sunday: Stephen King's "Under the Dome." A pity that the Talking Volumes appearance is sold out. But you can still read the book, which, according to our reviewer, is ...... oh, wait til Sunday.
Star Tribune Books Sarah Palin apparently bringing her book tour to the Mall of America on Dec. 7. Will you go?
Star Tribune Books Stephanie Wilbur Ash on Nick Hornby's new book, "Juliet, Naked":
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Remove your headphones and hear this: The opening scene of Nick Hornby's latest book, "Juliet, Naked," has the characters standing over a clogged toilet in a Minneapolis rock club -- ...
Star Tribune Books Katy Read reviewed Ayelet Waldman's book for us earlier this year, so she was a natural to write about Michael Chabon's new book, too. (The two, of course, are married.)
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Despite its title, Michael Chabon's "Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son" isn't really, of course, a how-to manual
Star Tribune Books Michael Greenberg was a Talking Volumes guest last year. Elizabeth Larsen found his new collection, "Beg, Borrow, Steal," shot through with humility and good humor.
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Writing, especially memoir, is a complicated kind of theft
Star Tribune Books Dont' forget: We're looking for your favorite books to read during the winter months. "Dr. Zhivago"? Or maybe you want warmth in the cold--"Telex from Cuba"? Send me an email and we'll run your recommendations on Nov. 22.
Star Tribune Books Star Tribune Books "The cry of the Sloth" by Sam Savage and published by Coffee House Press of Minneapolis and "Chronic," a collection of poetry by D. A. Powell and published by Graywolf Press of Mnneapolis are among the best books of 2009, as chosen by Publishers Weekly.
Star Tribune Books Louise Erdrich makes the long list for the Impac Dublin literary prize. And it is a very long list...but it carries a nice award: 100,000 euros.
Source: www.impacdublinaward.ie
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Star Tribune Books Didn't get much reading done last night, what with the doorbell constantly ringing and small clownish children staring up at me expectantly. But I have higher hopes for chilly today. And you? Or will the Vikings-Packers game consume your day?
Star Tribune Books Kevin Kling will be the Talk of the Stacks speaker later this month. Here's the Strib review of his latest book, "Holiday Inn."
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There's Otto with the freshly replaced kneecaps, who picks up our ice-fishing storyteller hitchhiking near Bemidji and shares an eelpout recipe on a herky-jerky ride
Star Tribune Books Pamela Miller gives two enthusiastic thumbs up to Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, "The Lacuna."
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There is some compensation for the enthralled reader sailing reluctantly into the final pages of "The Lacuna," Barbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years -- and her best
