Mary Ann Grossmann
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Readers and writers: A ‘trans-glam-punk-rock love story’ – Twin Cities
Two novels about women and babies and a memoir by a cisgender woman about her love for her trans spouse offer rich reading this week. → Read More
Literary calendar for week of March 12
BERICA HANNICKEL: Professor of environmental history at Northland College, Ashland, Wis., discusses her new book “Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers,” in the Univers… → Read More
Literary calendar for week of March 5
V.V. GANESHANANTHAN: Reads from her novel “Brotherless Night,” set in the early years of Sri Lanka’s three-decade civil war. It’s about a 16-year-old who wants to be a doct… → Read More
Literary calendar for the week of Feb. 19
Anoka County Library featured authors: Sixteen Minnesota authors who will be featured in Anoka libraries during 2023 will be at the Local Author Fair, presented by Anoka County Library, with keynot… → Read More
Readers and writers: St. Paul poet celebrates going viral and new Zelda Fitzgerald book
“It’s all about St. Paul, Baby. It’s 651 all the way.” An ebullient Danny Klecko, never one to hold back his emotions, was jazzed that his poem “45 Minutes in Central … → Read More
This week in books: Meet a journalist devoted to writing about Black people
Charlayne Hunter-Gault celebrates the recent publication of “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives.” → Read More
A first-person account of a MN country doctor fighting the 1918 flu pandemic
The doctor’s granddaughter, Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer, will read from the book at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at Next Chapter Booksellers in St. Paul. → Read More
Literary Calendar for the week of Feb. 5
Diane Glancy: Macalester College professor emerita shares her memoir “Home is the Road: Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit,” in which she writes “My sense of place is in the m… → Read More
Readers & Writers: A memoir, senior romance and a few crime novels – Twin Cities
A memoir critics are loving, senior romance, and two crime/mystery novels offer variety for readers today. “The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be” by Shannon Gibney (Dutton Books for Yo… → Read More
Literary pick for week of Feb. 5: David Mura’s new book – Twin Cities
It’s helpful when an author tells readers right up front what their book is about. David Mura does so on page 14 of “The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Na… → Read More
Literary calendar for week of Jan. 29
HEIDI BARR: Minnesota writer and wellness coach celebrates publication of her book “Collisions of Earth and Sky: Connecting with Nature for Nourishment, Reflection, and Transformation,”… → Read More
Literary pick for week of Jan. 29
Teachers and librarians are contemporary heroes, caught in the crossfire between challenges of books from the political left and the right. To teach or not to teach “Of Mice and Men”? I… → Read More
Readers and writers: Former St. Paulite’s debut novel is now a Penguin Classic – Twin Cities
David Haynes, 67, wrote “Right By My Side” when he was about 30. → Read More
2023 Minnesota Book Awards finalists announced
Winners will be announced at the Book Awards ceremony on May 2, at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in downtown St. Paul. → Read More
Literary calendar for week of Jan. 15, 2023
MAREN COOPER: St. Paul author launches the winter season of Friends of the St. Paul Public Library’s Fireside Reading series with discussion of “Finding Grace,” her novel about Ca… → Read More
Readers and writers: Remembering a few books you might have missed in 2022
Did you lose track of some of the best fiction of 2022? Not to worry. Here’s a recap of titles that most often turned up on Best Of and reader favorite lists. We’re listing these books … → Read More
Literary Pick for the week of Jan. 8, 2023
Shannon Gibney will launch her much-anticipated new book, “The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, at Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave., Mpls., and … → Read More
New books include several crime/mystery standouts and a Vietnam-era drama
We’re looking at an eclectic mix of genres today, including two novels and two in crime/mystery. “Summer of Rain, Summer of Fire” by Bill Meissner (Stephen F. Austin State Univers… → Read More
Literary Calendar for week of Jan. 8., 2023
Poets, Writers, Musicians Against the War on the Earth and for the People of Ukraine is the title of a program at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at the American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Ave., Mpls. … → Read More
Literary calendar for week of Jan. 1, 2023
SHERI BRENDEN: Discusses her book “Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX,” in which she tells of how her sister, Peggy, and Toni St. Pierre inspired the 1972 leg… → Read More