September 2010 - Vol 5, Issue 2
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Good news comes in twos this month.

  • Two world class authors are coming to town: Sara Gruen (Sept 9) and William Gibson (Sept 6)
  • Two new works of posthumous fiction from Roberto Bolano and Jose Saramago
  • Two NPR personalities discuss their new books
  • Two of Minneapolis' favorite authors join forces on a new book
That's just the beginning. Read on for all the details, and start making plans for a fantastic fall.

Magers & Quinn is pleased to bring you authors of two of this fall's best new books.
  • Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) comes to the Woman's Club of Minneapolis on September 9.
  • William Gibson signs copies of his latest novel Zero History September 16 at M&Q; he'll also be reading and talking with fans at the Minneapolis Central Library that evening.

Tickets for these readings are $5.00 each--redeemable towards the purchase of a new book the night of the reading. Seating is limited, so get your tickets while they last. Tickets are available only at Magers & Quinn. Stop in or call us at 612/822-4611 to get yours.

Meet Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants--September 9

In the store: $23.40
Online: $19.50 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $26.00
Available September 7
The author of the bestselling and beloved Water for Elephants returns with a new novel, Ape House (available September 7). Sara Gruen will read from Ape House at the beautiful Woman's Club of Minneapolis. Q&A and signing will follow. This will be her only Twin Cities appearance.

Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but she gets bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans . . . until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what's really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and "liberating" the apes, John's human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he'll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest phenomenon in the history of modern media. Millions of fans are glued to their screens watching the apes order greasy take-out, have generous amounts of sex, and sign for Isabel to come get them. Now, to save her family of apes from this parody of human life, Isabel must connect with her own kind, including John, a green-haired vegan, and a retired porn star with her own agenda.

"Sara Gruen ... has created a true thriller that is addictive from its opening sentence. Devour it to find out what happens next, but also to learn remarkable and moving things about life on this planet. Very, very few novels can change the way you look at the world around you. This one does."--Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife

Two opportunities to meet William Gibson , author of Mona Lisa Overdrive--September 16

In the store: $24.25
Online: $20.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $26.95
Available September 7
The author of the cult hits Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive returns with a new novel, Zero History (available September 7). Magers & Quinn Booksellers is pleased to announce two appearances by the author. These will be his only events in the Twin Cities.
  • William Gibson will meet fans and sign copies of his new novel--5:00pm, Thursday, September 16 at Magers & Quinn Booksellers
  • William Gibson will read from his new novel Zero History--7:30pm, Thursday, September 16, at the Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Ave S, Minneapolis. Q&A and signing will follow.

Tickets for these events will go quickly, so stop by M&Q soon to be sure you get yours. Once they're gone, they're gone.

Details on all the fall's events at M&Q are here.
M&Q is unpacking hundreds of great books for the new season. Here are just a few of them.

The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bola�o

In the store: $20.65
Online: $17.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $22.95
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Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bola�o was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. The Insufferable Gaucho is the most recent of his works to be translated into English.

Queer--The 25th Anniversary Edition by William Burroughs

In the store: $13.50
Online: $11.25 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $15.00
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A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma-both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self- lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest.

The Witch of Hebron: A World Made by Hand Novel by James Kunstler

In the store: $26.60
Online: $18.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $24.00
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In a post-oil America, there is no electricity, no Internet, people travel by horse and buggy, the government is little more than a rumor, wars are fought over dwindling resources and illness is a constant presence; and in the little town of Union Grove, New York, the people must deal with roving bandits and a sinister cult that threatens to shatter the hamlet's stability. James Kunstler's novel is a wake-up call to the complacent and the careless.

The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago

In the store: $21.60
Online: $18.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $24.00
Available September 8
In 1551, King Jo�o III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant's journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, Jos� Saramago has spun a novel already heralded as "a triumph of language, imagination, and humor" (El Pa�s).


Stop in today for more recommendations for your fall reading list. We'll help you find just the right book.
September's Events
Sunday, September 5 Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson discuss The Great Typo Hunt, 4:00pm

Thursday, September 9 Sara Gruen reads from Ape House, 7:30pm at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis

Sunday, September 12 Julie Doxsee and Paula Cisewski read from their new poetry, 4:00pm

Monday, September 13 Laurie Hertzel reads from News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist, 7:30pm

Tuesday, September 14 Books and Bars discusses Blankets at Bryant-Lake Bowl; doors open at 6:00pm, discussion begins at 7:00pm

Thursday, September 16 William Gibson reads from Zero History, in-store signing at 5:00pm, reading at Pohlad Hall, Minneapolis Public Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, 7:30pm

Sunday, September 19 Richard Terrill and Joyce Sutphen read from their new poetry 4:00pm

Tuesday, September 21 Gary Shteyngart reads from Super Sad True Love Story, 7:30pm

Thursday, September 23 Steve Brezenoff reads from The Absolute Value of -1, 7:30pm

Sunday, September 26 Joshua Ferris reads from The Unnamed, 4:00pm (with Peter Bognanni)

Tuesday, September 28 The Big Bang Book Club discusses Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science, 7:00pm at duplex, 2516 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 7:00pm

Friday, October 1 Michele Norris discusses The Grace of Silence: On Matters of Race and the Consequence of Silence, 7:30pm, at the Cowles Auditorium, Hubert Humphrey Institute, 301 19th Ave. S, Minneapolis

Sunday, October 3 Alex Cohen discusses Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby, 4:00pm

Monday, October 4 Sena Jeter Naslund reads from Adam & Eve, 7:30pm

Visit our events page
for full details.

All events are at Magers & Quinn unless noted otherwise.
Sunday, September 5, 4:00pm--Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson discuss The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

In the store: $26.60
Online: $17.99 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $23.99
Available Now
Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed with markers, chalk, and correction fluid, they circumnavigated America, righting the glaring errors displayed in grocery stores, museums, malls, restaurants, mini-golf courses, beaches, and even a national park. Jeff and Benjamin championed the cause of clear communication, blogging about their adventures transforming horor into horror, it's into its, and coconunut into coconut. But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower. The government charged them with defacing federal property and summoned them to court--with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated "criminal statues." Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into "grammar vigilantes," airing errors about their errant errand.

Monday, September 13, 7:30pm--Laurie Hertzel reads from News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist

In the store: $20.65
Online: $17.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $22.95
Available Now
Laurie Hertzel, books editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is an author, too. Her new book News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist (available September 2010) is the story of Hertzel's journey into the bustling world of print journalism in the mid-1970s, a time when copy was still banged out on typewriters by chain-smoking men in fedoras and everybody read the paper.

Written with the insight and humor of someone who makes a living telling stories, News to Me is the chronicle of a small-city newspaper on the cusp of transformation, an affectionate portrait of Duluth and its people, and the account of a talented, persistent journalist who witnessed it all and was changing right along with it--whether she wanted to or not.

Tuesday, September 21, 7:30pm--Gary Shteyngart reads from Super Sad True Love Story

In the store: $23.40
Online: $19.50 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $26.00
Available Now
The author of the hilarious novels Absurdistan and The The Russian Debutante's Handbook is back with a new satire. And this time, he's hitting home. America is about to collapse. But don't that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century--he totally loves books (or "printed, bound media artifacts," as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves the impossibly cute, impossibly cruel Eunice Park.

"Super Sad True Love Story is an intoxicating brew of keen-edged satire, social prophecy, linguistic exuberance, and emotional wallop. The American novel is safe in Gary Shteyngart's gifted hands."--David Mitchell, author of Black Swan Green


Thursday, September 23, 7:30pm--Steve Brezenoff reads from The Absolute Value of -1

In the store: $15.25
Online: $12.71 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $16.95
Available Sept 21
Magers & Quinn Booksellers is pleased to host the launch party for one of the first books from Carolrhoda Lab--The Absolute Value of -1 by St Paul's Steve Brezenoff.

Noah, Lily, and Simon have been a trio forever. But as they enter high school, their relationships shift and their world starts to fall apart. Privately, each is dealing with a family crisis--divorce, abuse, and a parent's illness. Yet as they try to escape the pain and reach out for the connections they once counted on, they slip--like soap in a shower. Noah's got it bad for Lily, but he knows too well Lily sees only Simon. Simon is indifferent, suddenly inscrutable to his friends. All stand alone in their heartache and grief. In this luminous YA novel, Steve Brezenoff explores the changing value of relationships as the characters realize that the distances between them are far greater than they knew.

Sunday, September 26, 4:00pm--Two of the country's best young writers-- Joshua Ferris (author of Then We Came to the End and The Unnamed) and Peter Bognanni (author of The House of Tomorrow)--meet at Magers & Quinn for a public conversation about their work.

In the store: $12.60
Online: $14.09 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $13.99
Available September 14
"The Unnamed is ambitious, intelligent, and even more complex than Ferris's debut novel, Then We Came to the End"--Christian Science Monitor

Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.

"An unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization's defenses. Ferris's prose is brash, extravagant, and, near the end, chillingly beautiful."--The New Yorker

Friday, October 1, 7:30pm--NPR's Michele Norris returns to her hometown to discuss The Grace of Silence: On Matters of Race and the Consequence of Silence

In the store: $22.45
Online: $18.71 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $24.95
Available September 21
In the wake of talk of a "postracial" America upon Barack Obama's ascension as president of the United States, Michele Norris, cohost of National Public Radio's flagship program All Things Considered, set out to write, through original reporting, a book about "the hidden conversation" on race that is unfolding nationwide. She would, she thought, base her book on the frank disclosures of others on the subject, but she was soon disabused of her presumption when forced to confront the fact that "the conversation" in her own family had not been forthright.

Norris unearthed painful family secrets that compelled her to question her own self-understanding: from her father's shooting by a Birmingham police officer weeks after his discharge from the navy at the conclusion of World War II to her maternal grandmother's peddling pancake mix as an itinerant Aunt Jemima to white farm women in the Midwest. In what became a profoundly personal and bracing journey into her family's past, Norris traveled from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South to explore the reasons for the "things left unsaid" by her father and mother when she was growing up, the better to come to terms with her own identity. Along the way she discovered how her character was forged by both revelation and silence.

Extraordinary for Norris's candor in examining her own racial legacy and what it means to be an American, The Grace of Silence is also informed by rigorous research in its evocation of time and place, scores of interviews with ordinary folk, and wise observations about evolving attitudes, at once encouraging and disturbing, toward race in America today. For its particularity and universality, it is powerfully moving, a tour de force.

Sunday, October 3, 4:00pm--Alex "Axles of Evil" Cohen discusses Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby

In the store: $13.45
Online: $11.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $14.95
Available Now
Ever wonder how roller derby began? What the hell is going on during a bout? Whether you're woman enough to don a pair of skates? Alex "Axles of Evil" Cohen and her new book Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby have all the answers.

Down and Derby will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the sport. Written by veteran skaters as both a history and a how-to, Down and Derby is a brassy celebration of every aspect of the sport, from its origins in the late 1800s to the rules of a modern bout to the science of picking an alias to the many ways you can get involved off skates.

When she's not knocking heads, Alex Cohen is the host of All Things Considered on KPCC in Los Angeles and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio. Yeah, really.

This event is co-sponsored by the Minnesota RollerGirls. Members will be on hand to enforce proper derby etiquette and to recruit new rollergirls and volunteers. The Minnesota RollerGirls are part of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), a national governing body for female-only, skater-owned, flat-track roller derby leagues. The Minnesota RollerGirls league was founded by the Donnelly sisters in August 2004 and has grown from 6 original members to a current roster of 80 skaters, 8 referees and coaches, and countless volunteers. All participants are unpaid amateurs and the league provides insurance coverage for practices and bouts. The Minnesota RollerGirls are dedicated to our local communities and charities and we invest our time, effort, and a portion of our event proceeds to local, and sometimes national, charities. For more information please visit www.MNRollerGirls.com or find them on Facebook and Twitter.

Monday, October 4, 7:30pm--Sena Jeter Naslund reads from her latest novel Adam & Eve

In the store: $24.30
Online: $20.24 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $26.99
Available September 28
One of the most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena Jeter Naslund delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale yet. The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam & Eve.

When Thom Bergmann discovers extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy, they fear that that the world is not ready for proof of life elsewhere in the universe. Upon Thom's his untimely--and highly suspicious--death, Lucy keeps the secret, until Thom's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it.

"To describe the elements of this ambitious novel is to sound unhinged, but Naslund pulls it off. This thriller is rich in brilliant discourses on religion, fanaticism, the meaning of ancient cave art, the speculative future, and love."--Library Journal


But wait, there's more... We've got lots of great events coming up this fall. Mark your calendars now, so you don't forget.
  • Tuesday, October 5--Deborah Morse-Kahn
  • Thursday, October 7--Karen Casey
  • Tuesday, October 12--Peter Smith
  • Wednesday, October 13--Will Weaver
  • Friday, October 15--Sara Marcus (with Laurie Lindeen)
  • Monday, October 18--Peter Geye
Visit www.magersandquinn.com for more details.
The Big Bang Book Club is a science book club for non-scientists. Our next meeting will be 7:00pm, Tuesday, September 28, at duplex restaurant.bar, 2516 Hennepin Ave S, in Minneapolis.

In the store: $15.25
Online: $12.71 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $16.95
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September's selection is Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science: the field of scientific classification, or taxonomy. Yet, in spite of Linnaeus's pioneering work and the genius of those who followed him, from Darwin to E. O. Wilson, taxonomy went from being revered as one of the most significant of intellectual pursuits to being largely ignored. Today, taxonomy is viewed by many as an outdated field, one nearly irrelevant to the rest of science and of even less interest to the rest of the world. Or is it?

The Big Bang Book Club mixes arts and science into a heady brew. It is sponsored by


In the store: $14.45
Online: $11.24 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $14.99
Available September 14
While you're waiting for your BBBC fix, may we suggest you pick up a copy of The Best American Science Writing 2010? Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jerome Groopman, The Best American Science Writing 2010 collects in one volume the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year. Distinguished by new and impressive voices as well as some of the foremost names in science writing--David Dobbs, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Larissa MacFarquhar among them--this eleventh edition features outstanding journalism from a wide variety of publications, providing a comprehensive overview of the year's most compelling, relevant, and exciting developments in the world of science.
Several recent bestsellers are out now in paperback. Check out our front table for these and many, many more good books.

Half Broke Horses: A True-life Novel by Jeanette Walls

In the store: $13.50
Online: $11.25 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $15.00
Available September 7
Half Broke Horses is the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no-nonsense and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town--riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. With her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy.

Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa.

Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby

In the store: $13.50
Online: $11.25 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $15.00
Available September 7
Nick Hornby returns to his roots--music and messy relationships--in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who's gone into seclusion in rural America--or at least that's what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker's work, to the point of derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike of his latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three.

Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne

In the store: $14.40
Online: $12.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $16.00
Available September 28
Artist and musician David Byrne has relied on his bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s. In Bicycle Diaries he tells of his adventures as he pedals through some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on art, fashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many places are becoming more bike-friendly. Bicycle Diaries is an adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity, and humanity.

This has been a fantastic year for books. Here are several we want to draw your attention to. And there are thousands more on our shelves right now.

Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee

In the store: $14.40
Online: $11.99 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $15.99
Available September 14
Two of Minneapolis' favorite authors--Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and award-winning author Alison McGhee--join forces for a rollicking ode to friendship.

Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls--one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion. No matter where their roller skates take them, at the end of the day they will always be the very best of friends. Full of quick-witted repartee, Bink and Gollie is a hilarious ode to exuberance and camaraderie, imagination and adventure.

The Old Farmer's Almanac 2011

In the store: $6.25
Online: $5.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $6.95
Available September 15
The Old Farmer's Almanac was sustainable before sustainability was cool. For 219 years America's best-selling annual publication has been dispensing weather forecasts, astronomical data, gardening tips, recipes, and even fashion advice. Get your copy now, and you'll never wonder what's in store for you in the next year.

The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living by Mark Bittman

In the store: $31.50
Online: $26.25 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $35.00
Available September 21
From the award-winning champion of conscious eating and author of the bestselling Food Matters and How to Cook Everything comes The Food Matters Cookbook, offering the most comprehensive and straightforward ideas yet for cooking easy, delicious foods that are as good for you as they are for the planet. The Food Matters Cookbook is the essential encyclopedia and guidebook to responsible eating, with more than 500 recipes that capture Bittman's typically relaxed approach to everything in the kitchen. Easygoing and non-doctrinaire, The Food Matters Cookbook explains how to create not just better health for you, but for the world we all share--and how to have a great meal, too.

Too busy to read? Jason Huff has a solution. His AutoSummarize project uses Microsoft Word's feature of the same name to boil classics of literature down to ten simple sentences.

For example, Clippy thinks that The Illiad can best be summed up as "Gods! Gods! Gods! Hector! Gods! Gods! Hector! Gods! Gods! God!"

Huff has compiled his summaries in a book, or you can see them in a PDF here.
Magers & Quinn is proud to sponsor Vita.mn's 2nd annual Autumn Music and Movies Series outdoors at the Lake Harriet Band Shell. Produced in cooperation with the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, the four-week series features a range of Minnesota musicians paired with their favorite and most inspiring films. Bands will take the stage at 8pm and play as the sun sets. The film of their choice will then screen at 9:15pm. Guests are encouraged to bring their own blankets.

Friday, September 3, stop by Lake Harriet to hear Solid gold and see the movie is Point Break. Details on this and the rest of the autumn's pairings are here.
Books & Bars--the Twin Cities' most unusual and interesting book club--meets Tuesday, August 24 at Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W Lake Street, in Minneapolis. Doors open at 6:00pm; the discussion begins at 7:00pm.

In the store: $14.99
Online: $14.99 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $29.95
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September's book is Blankets by Craig Thompson. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, this graphic novel explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. It's a tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.

Books & Bars is not your typical book club. We provide a unique atmosphere for a lively discussion of interesting authors, fun people, good food and drinks. You're welcome even if you haven't read the book.

Books & Bars is presented by Jeff Kamin and Magers & Quinn Booksellers, sponsored by Bryant-Lake Bowl, Metro Magazine and Surly Brewing.


Visit booksandbars.com for details and to talk to fellow members!

Magers & Quinn is the largest independent bookstore in the Twin Cities. Stop in today or check our inventory on our website any time.

We'll be back next month with more great book news.

Until then,
David Enyeart
Magers and Quinn Booksellers

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