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: In Winter’s Kitchen by Beth Dooley Published by Milkweed Editions Category Sponsors: Kevin…
Read MoreEach 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 Genre Fiction finalist: The Devereaux Decision by Steve McEllistrem Published by Calumet Editions Category Sponsor: Macalester College A group…
Read MoreEach 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 General Nonfiction finalist: Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It by…
Read MoreEach 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 Children’s Literature finalist: Behold! A Baby by Stephanie Watson, illustrated by Joy Ang Published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books Category…
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Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912 Spanning the half-century after the Civil War, Degrees of Freedom draws a rare picture of black experience in a northern state and of the nature of black discontent and action within a predominantly white, ostensibly progressive society. Green reveals little-known historical characters among the black men…
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Catherine Madison closes the Fireside Series with a reading from The War Came Home with Him, which tells the stories of two survivors of one man’s war: a father who withstood a prison camp’s unspeakable inhumanity and a daughter who withstood the residual cruelty that came home with him. Doc Boysen died fifty years after…
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