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August News from Magers and Quinn Booksellers
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Upcoming Events
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Heid Erdrich
& Leslie Adrienne Miller
read from Cell Traffic and Y
Thurs. Sept. 13 @ 7:30 pm
Plus:
9/14: Jonathan Evison and Benjamin Percy
9/15: Sandra Brannan
9/19: Ray Harris
9/20: John Brandon
9/21: Michael Chabon
9/21: EJ Levy
9/25: Amber Sparks, John Jodzio, and BJ Hollars
9/28: Kris Bigalk and Don Share
10/4: Naomi Wolf
More information always availble at our events page. Click here. |
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Dear Booklovers,
Hope everybody is enjoying their time at the beach, at the park, or in an air-conditioned office! We've had a great summer here at the store, with terrific events featuring Karen Thompson Walker, Donald Ray Pollock, Joshua Henkin, and Robert Goolrick. And the summer isn't even over! #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson will be at the store on Monday, Aug. 13 @ 7:30 pm. Get here early, as space is limited. In this issue you will get a peek at the amazing authors who are coming to the Twin Cities this fall. Additionally we are pleased to announce a brand new feature here at the store. A few times a year we will be asking local celebrities (chefs, musicians, writers) to share with us their "Must Read" book selections. The titles will be displayed in the store for a few months, easily seen, so please, come on down. Up first is local author and musician Dylan Hicks, who recommends some of his favorite music books (writing about music, writing involving music, writing by musicians). It's a terrific list. Come in to the store to check it out. Your friends at Magers & Quinn
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All Your Favorite Authors Are Coming to Town
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Time to get out that calendar! Along with the Friends of the Hennepin County Library, we are pleased help announce the fall season of Talk of the Stacks as well as the full season of Pen Pals.
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See Authors in 3D!
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Talk of the Stacks is a reading series exploring contemporary literature and culture, held at the Minneapolis Central Library. Programs are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Programs begin at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:15 pm. This fall the program features readings and discussions with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon (Sept. 21), Naomi Wolf (Oct. 4), Geoff Dyer (Nov. 17), and Calvin Trilllin (Dec. 6). All events are FREE. For more information please visit the Friends of the Hennepin County Library online here.
The award-winning Pen Pals Author Lecture series is the longest running and one of the most highly regarded literary series in the Twin Cities. All events are ticketed and are held at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hopkins, Minnesota. This season features readings and discussions by Salman Rushdie (Oct. 18 & 19), Alice Kaplan (Nov. 29 & 30), Roz Chast (March 14 & 15), and Armistead Maupin (May 16 & 17)
For tickets, or for more information please visit the Friends of the Hennepin County Library online here.
Talking Volumes is a partnership of Minnesota Public Radio and the The Star Tribune, in collaboration with The Loft Literary Center. This season, they are pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz (Sept. 18), Jeffrey Toobin (Sept. 26th), Abraham Verghese (Oct. 10) and Erin Morgenstern (Nov. 9). All events are held at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, and begin at 7:00 pm. For tickets, or more information, please visit Talking Volumes online here.
And as always: don't forget to come down to Magers & Quinn to buy all the books you want signed! (PS. Stay tuned for an exciting announcement from Rain Taxi about the line-up at this year's Twin Cities Book Festival. It's a killer line up! The festival will be happening this year on October 13th.
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Dylan Hicks / Music Picks
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 We're big fans of local musician and author Dylan Hicks. His debut novel Boarded Windows was published this year by Coffee House Press to wide acclaim, and he released a companion album DYLAN HICKS SINGS BOLLING GREENE along with it.
There are tons of great books about music, but we thought: why not turn to a local luminary who is both a writer and a musician for recommendations? So we asked Dylan, and he obliged. We will be featuring his selections here at the store for the next few months. Please come take a look! A few of his selections, along with his recommendations, are listed below. This is the first of what we hope will be come a recurring feature here at the store. A few times a year we'll ask local authors / musicians / celebrities / chefs to recommend their favorite books on a given subject, and will highlight those selections. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for whom we should ask.
**Check out a few of Dylan's picks for great music writing below!**
Dylan Hicks is a writer and musician, whose short fiction and poetry has appeared in Swink, Dislocate, the Rake, Hobart, Pindeldyboz, Da Capo Press's Best Music Writing 2007, and elsewhere. His journalism and essays have appeared in the Village Voice, the New York Times, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Rain Taxi, Spin, the Millions, and City Pages, where he held various editorial positions in the '00s. He has released three CDs on No Alternative Records, and his fourth album, DYLAN HICKS SINGS BOLLING GREENE is a companion piece to his debut novel Boarded Windows. He lives in Minneapolis, and can be found playing music or giving readings with regularity. He lives online at his website www.dylanhicks.com |
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Summer is almost over but we've got a little more sun left! We're looking forward to seeing you here at the store! Come on by to say hello and browse our 8,000 square feet of new, gently used, and rare titles. The summer was made for reading.
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Dylan Hicks / Music Picks #1:
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson
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"A monograph about aesthetics, taste, class, and mass culture driven by the routinely derided music of Celine Dion. Walks some of the same ground covered in Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction, but in many fewer pages and much more inviting prose. See also: Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction; Simon Frith, Sound Effects."
(Dylan Hicks)
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Dylan Hicks / Music Picks #2:
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
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"A searching novel about lives led at one or two removes, centered on the relationship between an anxious, adrift woman and her older brother, a self-deceiving but somehow pure rock musician of intense obscurity. See also: Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude; Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad."
(Dylan Hicks )
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Dylan Hicks / Music Picks #3:
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
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"A history of American punk from the mouths of major and minor players. Trashy, fast, addictive, might leave a mark. See also: Jon Savage, England's Dreaming; Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung."
(Dylan Hicks)
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Dylan Hicks / Music Picks #4:
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
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"An exhaustively researched history that, besides putting you at the scene of Kool Herc's parties, puts hip hop into a larger social, political, and economic context. See also: Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, eds., The Anthology of Rap; Raquel Cepeda, ed., "And It Don't Stop": The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years."(Dylan Hicks)
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Dylan Hicks / Music Picks #5:
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
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"A detailed history of the bands, zines, and often teenage activists behind the enduringly influential and inspiring riot-grrrl movement. See also: Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991."(Dylan Hicks)
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