In the Literary Colosseum
Literary Death Match Sunday, June 5, at the Aster Café, Northeast Minneapolis Poetry Reading. Open Mic Night. Writers’ Salon. For readers and writers the mention of events like these evokes an...
View ArticleMost Definitely Not Your Mother’s Book Club: Part I
Books and Bars Meeting on the second Tuesday of the month at The Aster in Minneapolis In a crowded, low-lit restaurant in Northeast, a young woman holds a microphone and gestures with her...
View ArticleBreaking Down those Complicated Relationships
The MN Publishing Tweet Up Wednesday, July 20 Clubhouse Jäger The focus, lately, has been community. Though really, when it comes to writers and the book-minded, does the subject ever stray from...
View ArticleThe Splendor of the Creative Process
Craig Thompson Discusses Habibi Minneapolis College of Art and Design Monday, September 26, 2011 MCB has a friend. Joel is a good name. Joel had always been interested in writing, going so far...
View ArticleTake a Chance on the Open Mic
It is a truth impossible to acknowledge that open mics, even in possession of a good audience, must get off to a rough start. On Hazel & Wren's Words at WAM.
View ArticleHonor Your Narrative: Junot Díaz at the Fitz
In 1974, when Díaz was six years old and had just emigrated from the Dominican Republic to New Jersey, the library opened up his world. “The idea that I could access all of those books, that they were...
View ArticleA Writing Weekend in the Woods
Writers have a weakness for trivial details. It’s how you carry out the old show, don’t tell dictum. Off the cuff I can’t differentiate an oak from an ash, but with some research I can show you the...
View ArticleStill Life
Unlike the majority of photographers, Cindy Sherman seldom captures; she creates. Rarely does she not appear in her work, and as such she invents for herself a new use and purpose in each piece, a new...
View ArticleFor We Have Sinned
How often do we let ourselves bare all? How many would have material to add to “We Are All Criminals” – Baxter’s art installation at {confess}?
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