|
|||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If it weren't for a steady diet of tea, coffee, soups, salads, sandwiches (and cookies!) from Lucia's To Go, just around the corner from our store, we here at Magers & Quinn would have a difficult time doing much of anything. We asked Lucia Watson herself to recommend a handful of her favorite cookbooks. Here's what she had to say.
M&Q:How long have you been in business? And why?
M&Q is full of good cookbooks. Come by today to find the right one for you. |
||||
Three local bookstores (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Common Good Books, and Micawbers), three local publishers (Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Coffee House Press), one literary journal (Rain Taxi Review of Books), and the Loft Literary Center have joined forces to offer the TCLPC. Attendees can get their cards punched--as you'd do at any coffee shop--at readings and other literary events. Find eligible events on the Twin Cities Literary Calendar. After twelve punches, the punch card becomes a fifteen dollar gift certificate. Join Twin Cities literary organizations for a happy hour gathering--Wednesday, September 14, 5:00pm, at Club J�ger (923 Washington Ave. N, Minneapolis). Receive your Literary Punch Card, learn about the card and the events coming this fall, drink punch, and celebrate the vibrant literary community. Oh and get punched for the first time (at least by us)! Details on the program are at www.litpunch.com. |
||
"Ribald and wry, concerned at heart with faith and forgiveness, Vestments is a rich, involving debut."--Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Songs for the Missing Hailed as a Best Book of 2010 by Publishers Weekly, the bracing tale of a young man caught between faith, family, and his love for a woman from the past. Originally drawn to the priesthood by the mystery, purity, and sensual fabric of the Church, as well as by its promise of a safe harbor from his tempestuous home, James Dressler finds himself attracted again to his first love, Betty Garc�a--just a few years after his ordination. Torn between these opposing desires, and haunted by his familial heritage, James finds himself at a crossroads. Exploring age-old and yet urgently contemporary issues in the Catholic Church, and infused throughout by a rich sense of the history and vibrant texture of St. Paul, Vestments is an utterly honest and subtly lyrical novel. A former newspaper editor and a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arkansas, John Reimringer lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, the poet Katrina Vandenberg. Vestments is his first novel. For more, see www.johnreimringer.com. ----- Bring your Twin Cities Literary Punch Card to this event and collect a punch. Collect a dozen punches, and your card becomes a $15.00 gift certificate. Find more events on the Twin Cities Literary Calendar. The Twin Cities Literary Punch Card is sponsored by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Coffee House Press, by Rain Taxi Review of Books, and by the Loft Literary Center. Details are at www.litpunch.com. Tuesday, September 13, 7:30pm--The writing group Hartless Murderers (Jessie Chandler, Joan Murphy Pride, and Brian Landon) read from their latest mysteries
Three Minnesota authors of silly, whimsical, and downright funny murder mysteries visit Magers & Quinn. The Hartless Murderers are
Brian Landon, editor of Why Did Santa Leave a Body and author of The Case of the Unnecessary Sequel and A Grand Ol' Murder. "Brian Landon had me at the title! After that, I couldn't stop laughing out loud as I read his latest novel filled with twists, turns and the totally unexpected."--Pat Dennis, author of Hotdish to Die For. "A laugh-a-minute mystery with plot twists, compelling characters, and a setting that can't be beat! If you threw Us Magazine, Paul Bunyan, and a funny bone into a wood chipper, this book would come out the other end."--Jess Lourey, author of September Fair. More info is at www.brianlandon.com. Joan Murphy Pride, author of Double Cross Country and Not So Fast ----- Bring your Twin Cities Literary Punch Card to this event and collect a punch. Collect a dozen punches, and your card becomes a $15.00 gift certificate. Find more events on the Twin Cities Literary Calendar. The Twin Cities Literary Punch Card is sponsored by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Coffee House Press, by Rain Taxi Review of Books, and by the Loft Literary Center. Details are at www.litpunch.com. Wednesday, September 14, 7:30pm--Catherine Holm, Sheila Packa, and Becca Brin Manlove read from their work
Three writers from northern Minnesota--Cook, Duluth, and Ely--visit Minneapolis to tell their stories. -----
"Catherine Holm writes with great and winning assurance and with nuanced compassion. My Heart is a Mountain is a truly lovely book by a fine writer."--Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "This fine debut collection of stories has great variety, and both reach and grasp of what it means to be fully human."--Will Weaver, author of The Last Hunter: An American Family Album Catherine Holm is an award-winning writer who lives with her husband Chris in rural Cook, Minnesota, on ten acres of boreal forest. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies and chapbooks. She writes about human yearning and how it is shaped by land and place. ----- Cloud Birds is a breathtaking flight through the western shoreline of Lake Superior north to the Iron Range of Minnesota. The poems are about bears, immigrants, bird migration, and women moving through violence. Sheila Packa is the poet laureate of Duluth, MN. She has written three books of poetry, The Mother Tongue, Echo & Lightning, and Cloud Birds. She is the recipient of an Arts and Cultural Heritage Community Arts Learning to do poetry and writing workshops for those in transition, with a special outreach to those dealing with domestic violence. For more information about her work, visit www.sheilapacka.com. -----
----- Bring your Twin Cities Literary Punch Card to this event and collect a punch. Collect a dozen punches, and your card becomes a $15.00 gift certificate. Find more events on the Twin Cities Literary Calendar. The Twin Cities Literary Punch Card is sponsored by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Coffee House Press, by Rain Taxi Review of Books, and by the Loft Literary Center. Details are at www.litpunch.com. Wednesday, September 21, 7:30pm--John Vaillant discusses The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
"A masterpiece. . . . What elevates The Tiger from adventure yarn to nonfiction classic is Vaillant's mastery of language."--Outside Outside a remote village in Russia's Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates these extraordinary events, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of nature's most deadly predator. John Vaillant's first book was the national bestseller The Golden Spruce, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction, as well as several other awards. He has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Outside, National Geographic and The Walrus, among other publications. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife and children. ----- Bring your Twin Cities Literary Punch Card to this event and collect a punch. Collect a dozen punches, and your card becomes a $15.00 gift certificate. Find more events on the Twin Cities Literary Calendar. The Twin Cities Literary Punch Card is sponsored by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Coffee House Press, by Rain Taxi Review of Books, and by the Loft Literary Center. Details are at www.litpunch.com.
Thursday, September 22, 7:30pm--Peter Smith reads from A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors
These awkward times are not without their humor, and a healthy dose at that. We all know the circumstances and places the lesser horrors are likely to await--sibling rivalries, high school gym class, job successes and failures, raising children. In this series of funny, honest, and moving pieces, Smith explores a few messy episodes from his own life: growing up Catholic on the south side of Chicago, seeing his tricycle stolen before his eyes, and onward to American life in the '50s and '60s, Vietnam, and a career in advertising, where bosses feed employees anxieties to increase creativity. Along the way, Smith discovers how these moments not only help define what it is to be human but are also a major source of our inspiration and imagination.
Peter Smith is a Twin Cities-based writer, humorist, and radio essayist. His audio essays appear each week on Minnesota Public Radio, and he is the author of A Porch Sofa Almanac.
Tuesday, September 27, 7:30pm--Susan Niz reads from Kara, Lost
Sixteen-year-old Kara flees the suffocation of her surburban life, trading in her home and family for a gritty, anonymous existence on the streets of Minneapolis. She begins a perilous journey, naive, well-intentioned, and isolated as she struggles to reconnect with her older sister. ----- Bring your Twin Cities Literary Punch Card to this event and collect a punch. Collect a dozen punches, and your card becomes a $15.00 gift certificate. Find more events on the Twin Cities Literary Calendar. The Twin Cities Literary Punch Card is sponsored by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Coffee House Press, by Rain Taxi Review of Books, and by the Loft Literary Center. Details are at www.litpunch.com.
Thursday, September 29, 7:00pm--William Adler discusses The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
In 1915, Joe Hill was executed for the murder of 47-year-old, Salt Lake City grocer John G. Morrison. At trial, the state of Utah introduced no motive, no murder weapon, and no positive identification of Hill. Its case leaned entirely on circumstantial evidence, and primarily on the fact that Hill had a received a gunshot wound on the night Morrison was killed. As to proof of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the prosecutor pointed to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) red card found in Hill's pocket. In The Man Who Never Died, the first full-scale biography of the legendary songwriter and labor martyr, William Adler presents never-before-published documentary evidence that both persuasively suggests Hill's innocence and points to the guilt of another man. "Excellent... Adler's prose is first rate, his analysis of history impeccable. He draws conclusions where appropriate, and presents an honest account, yet allows the reader to put together the final pieces of the puzzle."--Union Review William M. Adler has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Mother Jones. He is the author of Land of Opportunity, about the rise and fall of a crack cocaine empire, and Mollie's Job, which follows the flight of one woman's factory job from the United States to Mexico. He lives with his wife and son in Denver, Colorado. Adler will be joined by singer and storyteller John Berquist. Bergquist has long focused on the music, traditions, culture and history of the Upper Midwest, especially northern Minnesota and the Iron Range. A long-time member of the IWW, Local 630, he worked with the Chicago Branch to plan the union's Centenary celebration in 2005. He took part in the Centenary Concert at Preston Bradley Hall along with Utah Phillips, Rebel Voices, the Citizens Band, Larry Long and Len Wallace. He's sung at labor rallies across Minnesota's Iron Range and took part in the centennial celebration of Canada's oldest and largest IWW Labor Hall in Thunder Bay. ----- Bring your Twin Cities Literary Punch Card to this event and collect a punch. Collect a dozen punches, and your card becomes a $15.00 gift certificate. Find more events on the Twin Cities Literary Calendar. The Twin Cities Literary Punch Card is sponsored by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and Coffee House Press, by Rain Taxi Review of Books, and by the Loft Literary Center. Details are at www.litpunch.com.
And in the months ahead, we'll be hosting readings by
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Magers & Quinn is pleased to host a reading by "the best English novelist working today" (Guardian). Alan Hollinghurst will read from The Stranger's Child at M&Q at 7:30pm, Thursday, October 27.
UK press on The Stranger's Child has been very good. The Guardian called the book "one of the British literary world's most keenly awaited events", and said "Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today." Alan Hollinghurst is the author of The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in London. This event is co-sponsored by Quatrefoil Library. Quatrefoil Library is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2011. The volunteer-run, non-profit library collects, maintains, documents, and circulates gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer materials and information in a safe and accessible space. Quatrefoil's collection includes books, videos, DVDs, and sound recordings, which members may check out, as well as a large collection of non-circulating periodicals. Learn more at www.qlibrary.org. |
|||||
Several recent bestsellers are now available in paperback. Here are a few of our favorites.
Dogfight, A Love Story by Matt Burgess
Oh, and he needs to steal a pit bull. For the homecoming dogfight. With a story as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy--or revenge tragedy, for that matter--and an electrically colloquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Story establishes Matt Burgess as an exuberant new voice in contemporary literature. Matt Burgess will read from his novel at M&Q--7:30pm, Tuesday, October 25. He'll be joined by Scott Sparling, author of Wire to Wire. Sparling's novel features a cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, tells a harrowing tale of friendship and loss, and creates a stunning portrait of Northern Michigan in the late 1970s.
Cleopatra: A Life Story by Stacy Schiff
Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family specialties. She had children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. With Antony she would attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled both their ends. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
Half Empty by David Rakoff
In this deeply funny (and also wise and poignant) book, Rakoff examines the realities of our sunny, gosh�-everyone-can-be-a-star contemporary culture and finds that, pretty much as a universal rule, the best is not yet to come, adversity will triumph, justice will not be served, and your dreams won't come true. The book ranges from the personal to the universal, combining stories from Rakoff's reporting and accounts of his own experi�ences: the moment when being a tiny child no longer meant adults found him charming but instead meant other children found him a fun target; the perfect late evening in Manhattan when he was young and the city seemed to brim with such pos�sibility that the street shimmered in the moonlight-as he drew closer he realized the streets actually flickered with rats in a feeding frenzy. He also weaves in his usual brand Oscar Wilde-worthy cultural criticism (the tragedy of Hollywood's Walk of Fame, for instance).
Whether he's lacerating the musical Rent for its cutesy depic�tion of AIDS or dealing with personal tragedy, his sharp obser�vations and humorist's flair for the absurd will have you reveling in the power of negativity.
|
|||||||||||
One Minneapolis, One Read begins October 3 with a launch at the Guthrie Theater. Michele Norris and MPR's Kerri Miller will discuss The Grace of Silence and Norris' longstanding work to engage people in conversation about race. There will be more events throughout the fall. Find out how you can participate at the One Minneapolis, One Read website. |
|||||
We've got the first batch of 2012 calendars in the store right now. We have calendars featuring birds, bugs, and art by Charley Harper, Georgia O'Keeffe, or Mark Rothko, to name just a few. Take your pick while the selection is at its best.
|
||
Banned Book Week is September 24 to October 1. This year, for the first time, readers from around the world will be able to participate virtually in Banned Books Week, Sept. 24 - Oct.1. During this year's celebration of Banned Books Week, readers will be able to proclaim the virtues of their favorite banned books by posting videos of themselves reading excerpts to a dedicated YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/bannedbooksweek). Find how to record and upload your contribution at www.bannedbooksweek.org.
Here are a few suggestions of banned books you might read from: Or stop in today and find your own (un)banned book.
|
||
Books & Bars isn't your mother's book club. We provide a unique atmosphere for a lively discussion of interesting authors, fun people, good food and drinks. This month's meeting will be Tuesday, September 13, at the Aster Cafe. Doors open at 6:00pm; the discussion begins at 7:00pm. Call 612/379-3138 for table reservations.
"The novel you must read this summer.... a riveting emotional tornado of a novel."--Entertainment Weekly Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family's future. Beautifully written and keenly observed, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family pushed to its outer limits. 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 Aster Cafe, Metro Magazine and Fulton Beer.
|
|||||
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
Write us:
[email protected]
Call us:
612/822-4611
Or visit our website:
http://www.magersandquinn.com
|