The Friends Blog

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Young People’s Literature finalist: See No Color by Shannon Gibney Published by Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group Category Sponsor:…

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Poetry finalist: Modern Love & Other Myths by Joyce Sutphen Published by: Red Dragonfly Press Category Sponsor: Wellington Management…

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Novel & Short Story finalist: There’s Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter Published by Pantheon Books/Random…

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Minnesota finalist: Warrior Nation by Anton Treuer Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press Category Sponsor: Saint Mary’s University of…

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Memoir & Creative Fiction Finalist: We Know How This Ends: Living While Dying by Bruce H. Kramer with…