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M&Q and The Current present Chuck Klosterman, reading from his second novel, The Visible Man--Tuesday, November 8, 7:30pm.
Interspersed with notes, correspondence, and transcriptions that catalog a relationship based on curiosity and fear, The Visible Man touches on all of Chuck Klosterman's favorite themes: the consequence of culture, the influence of media, the complexity of voyeurism, and the existential contradiction of normalcy. Is this comedy, criticism, or horror? Not even Y__ seems to know for sure. Chuck Klosterman is the New York Times bestselling author of Eating the Dinosaur, Downtown Owl, Chuck Klosterman IV, Killing Yourself to Live, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, and Fargo Rock City, winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has written for GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, A.V. Club, and ESPN. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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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 what's better than a reading by Chuck Klosterman? How about the chance to buy a souvenir poster from the event? The artists at Aesthetic Apparatus have made a silver and blue beauty to celebrate Chuck's reading at M&Q. Get yours now.
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Readers of all ages will enjoy these great new books.
Big Little Brother written by Kevin Kling, illustrated by Chris Monroe
The narrator of Big Little Brother wants nothing more than to escape his brother's sticky fingers. Then an encounter at the old Woman in the Shoe play area teaches him that a pesky younger sibling can actually be a pal. Maybe having a brother, big or small, is a blessing after all.
Storyteller Kevin Kling, described as "one of our great national treasures" by public radio's Krista Tippett, has delighted audiences through his performances, plays, and audio and printed collections for decades. Illustrator Chris Monroe brings her witty, slightly subversive artistic sense to this heartwarming tale. The result is a playful, tender look at the familiar pains and joys of being a sibling.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 15!!
Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of.
The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 8!!
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
Not so very long ago, Eragon was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chances.
The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia? And if so, at what cost?
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In Consuming the Congo, author Peter Eichstaedt goes into these killing fields to unearth what is behind the bloodshed, traveling the countryside to hear the stories of those who live a nightmarish reality. He talks with survivors of villages decimated by war and desperate miners slogging through muck while militias and renegade army units roam the jungles, killing and raping with impunity, taking the profits, and leaving villagers to grueling labor, brutality, and disease. Millions of Congolese have died, and the bloodletting continues at a frightening pace. Consuming the Congo offers not only a view into the situation behind the headlines, but examines how we, as part of the problem, can become part of the solution. Peter Eichstaedt is a veteran journalist and author dedicated to revealing the stories behind human rights abuses. Formerly senior editor for Uganda Radio Network and Africa editor for the Institute of war and Peace in Reporting in The Hague, Netherlands, Eichstaedt is the author of the books First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army; If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans; and Pirate State: Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea. 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, November 3, 6:00pm--The Twin Cities Live Book Club meets at M&Q to discuss Room by Emma Donoghue
The Twin Cities Live Book Club wraps up its discussion of Emma Donoghue's novel Room at Magers & Quinn Booksellers. The meeting starts at 6:00pm and goes until 8:00pm. Enjoy free refreshments from Lucia's To Go. Win prizes and discuss the book with Elizabeth Ries. No RSVPs are necessary for this event.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.
Monday, November 7, 7:30pm--Adam Fell and Karolyn Redoute read from their poetry
Adam Fell is the author of I Am Not A Pioneer. He was born and raised in Burlington, Wisconsin, and holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin where he teaches at Edgewood College. --
Karolyn Redoute received an MFA from Indiana University. She enjoys the blue waters in Michigan, her home state, and in Minnesota, her adopted state, but loves the ocean best. Wednesday, November 9, 7:30pm --Baron Wormser reads from his collection of poetry Impenitent Notes
"Baron Wormser's incandescent, exacting, generous intelligence never allows him the luxury of detachment. Like all real subversion, his poetry hinges on responsibility. If there's irony, it's the irony of reality, of tragedy: the only animal that claims to know itself cannot save itself. Wormser can show you what's inside those emotions-hope, desire-whose outsides have names. Behind the playfulness, formidable technique and erudition; behind that, a mind that does not compromise. Impenitent Notes is essential work."--D. Nurkse, author of The Border Kingdom
Baron Wormser was appointed Poet Laureate of Maine in 2000. Since 2002, he has taught in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, and since 2009, Fairfield University. He directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. He lives in Cabot, Vermont.
Thursday, November 10, 7:30pm--Editor Kathie Bergquist discusses Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast. Several contributors will also appear.
The contributions of the Midwest and, specifically, Chicago to LGBTQ literature have been invaluable yet largely uncelebrated over the last century. This anthology charts a map of queer Chicago and showcases its thriving urban arts community, which boasts a unique history, legacy, and sensibility deeply rooted in the urban Midwest. Here is a first-rate collection of queer voices from Chicago's literary landscape. Celebrated writers Edmund White, Achy Obejas, Sharon Bridgforth, Brian Bouldrey, E. Patrick Johnson, Carol Anshaw, David Trinidad, and Mark Zubro are joined by emerging voices from the queer literary scene. The pieces span all literary genres, from fiction and poetry to memoir and essays, and portray a full gamut of gay Chicago lives from the everyday to the quirky, from public spectacles to quiet intimacies, from family life to nightlife, from dating to marriage, from loving to mourning. Several contributors to Windy City Queer will also appear at Magers & Quinn, along with editor Kathie Bergquist:
----- 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.
Sunday, November 13, 4:00pm--Tom Montgomery Fate reads from Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild
Tom Montgomery Fate lives in a Chicago suburb, where he is a husband, father, professor, and active member of his community. He also lives in a cabin built with the help of friends in the Michigan woods, where he walks by the river, chops wood, and reads Thoreau by candle light. While he divides his time between suburbia and the cabin, Fate's point is not to draw a line between the two but to ask what each has to say about the other. How do we balance nature (picking blackberries) with technology (tapping BlackBerrys)? What is revealed about human boundaries when a coyote wanders into a Quiznos? Can a cardinal protecting chicks from a hungry cat teach us anything about instincts and parenting? Fate seeks a more attentive, deliberate way of seeing the world and our place in it, not only among the trees and birds but also in the context of our relationships and society. A seasonal nature memoir, Cabin Fever takes readers on a search for the wild both in the woods and within ourselves. Although we are often estranged from nature in our daily lives, Fate shows that we can recover our kinship with the earth and its other inhabitants if we are willing to pay attention.
"Fate proves himself against his transcendental literary ancestor and, in the process, gives us a contemporary book of thought, hope, and promise. Cabin Fever is an antidote to the ills of the day."--Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition and curator of the Thoreau Institute Tuesday, November 15, 7:30pm--RD McHattie reads from her new novel Oxford Vindaloo
"Oxford Vindaloo is a charming collision between old world and new, east and west, technology and tradition, vaudeville and academia, age and youth, eccentricity and desperate normalcy. It's also my favorite recipe for curried shoes."--Howard Jay Patterson, M.E.M., founder of The Flying Karamazov Brothers "[An] evocative, detailed story... with a smart, honest, and insightful heroine."--Susan Allen Toth, author of My Love Affair with England RD McHattie has spent thirty years as an actor, artist, writer and teacher. She holds degrees from Smith College and the University of Minnesota and studied literature at Trinity College, Oxford. Her first Diane Quinnell novel is Returning to Denver. McHattie also wrote and illustrated the children's book A Black Cat Named Smokey. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and Himalayan cat, Hilda. ----- 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.
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  The Givens Foundation's NOMMO African American Authors Series is a conversation with and reading by notable African American authors, exploring their work and thoughts on the state of the art of African American literature. This month NOMMO brings acclaimed author Percival Everett to Minneapolis. He'll be speaking in the Cowles Auditorium, at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Center on Wednesday, November 2, at 7:00pm. Alexs Pate, University of Minnesota professor and author of Amistad, will host the evening. Tickets are available here or at 612/624-2345.
 Percival Everett is the author of nearly twenty novels (including A History of the African-American People and I Am Not Sidney Poitier), three collections of short fiction (Big Picture and Damned If I Do, and two volumes of poetry (Swimming Swimmers Swimming). Among his novels are Assumption and I Am Not Sidney Poitier, which won the Believer Book Award. Everett is also the recipient of the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the Academy Award from an American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, The Vallombrosa Von Rezzori Prize, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, and a New American Writing Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. He has served as a judge for, among others, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He teaches fiction writing and critical theory and is currently Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.And mark your calendars for next year... NOMMO hosts poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher Elizabeth Alexander--Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:00pm. Alexander is the author of Antebellum Dream Book and Crave Radiance and composed and delivered President Barack Obama's inaugural poem "Praise Song for the Day."
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One Minneapolis One Read continues with a community-wide discussion at M&Q led by Beverly Cottman--7:30pm, Monday, November 14
The Grace of Silence is a profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio's flagship program All Things Considered. While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama's election, Michele Norris discovered that there were painful secrets within her own family that had been willfully withheld. These revelations--from her father's shooting by a Birmingham police officer to her maternal grandmother's job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima in the Midwest--inspired a bracing journey into her family's past, from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South. The result is a rich and extraordinary family memoir, filled with stories that elegantly explore the power of silence and secrets, that boldly examines racial legacy and what it means to be a Minnesotan.
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Magers & Quinn Booksellsers is pleased to host a community discussion as part of 
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 Tom Brokaw will visit Minneapolis to speak at the Westminster Town Hall Forum--Tuesday, November 8, at 7:00pm. The Westminster Town Hall Forum is held in Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1200 Marquette Avenue, in downtown Minneapolis. This event is free and open to the public. Seating can be reserved for groups of 25 or more by calling the Town Hall Forum at 612-332-3421. Convenient parking is available across the street from Westminster at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Nicollet Mall and 13th Street, and at Orchestra Hall Ramp, Marquette Avenue and 11th Street.
"What happened to the America I thought I knew?" Brokaw writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we're easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing?... I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century." Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves together inspiring stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream. Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, Brokaw traces the exciting, unnerving changes in modern life--in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more--that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, in The Time of Our Lives, Brokaw gives us, a wise, honest, and wide-ranging book, a nourishing vision of hopefulness in an age of diminished expectations. |
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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.
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The Twin Cities are a literary hotbed. Outside of M&Q's huge array of readings (see the complete list here), you can meet fascinating authors every night of the week all over the metro area. Here are a few of the authors you can see in the weeks ahead:
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The Twin Cities' best book club is back, and this month we're ready for some football. Books & Bars provides a unique atmosphere for a lively discussion of interesting authors, fun people, good food and drinks. This month's meetings will be
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, H. G. Bissinger chronicles a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires--and sometimes shatters--the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. Books &
Bars is not your typical book club. 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.
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 M&Q is pleased to announce that Gary Mazzone has joined the team here as our new Outreach & Sales Manager. Gary was previously the district event and sales coordinator at Borders. If your school, business, faith-based organization, or non-profit is in need of books, Gary is the person to handle the request. Gary has helped many organizations build libraries, plan conferences, hold major author events, and raise funds to support their cause.
Gary lives in South Minneapolis with his dog Emma, a rescued Yorkie. In his time off, he enjoys taking long walks with Emma, tending to his garden, going to the Firm, and serving as president of Calvary Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Over the years, we've established great partnerships with the Loft Literary Center, the Friends of the Hennepin County Library, Rain Taxi and the Westminster Town Hall Forum. We are always looking to build and grow new partnerships. You can contact Gary by calling 612-822-4611, emailing gary@magersandquinn.com, or by asking for him on your next visit to the store. |
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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:
info@magersandquinn.com
Call us:
612/822-4611
Or visit our website:
http://www.magersandquinn.com
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