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Saturday, November 2, Lake Monster Brewing
Acclaimed graphic novelist and Eisner Award winning author Jeffrey Brown celebrated the publication of his new book, Kids Are Still Weird, presenting a slide show of his career as a cartoonist from childhood to present day.
Tuesday, October 22
2024 Kerlan Award Winner Lisa Yee, the award-winning author of more than 20 books for children and young adults including her recent titles, Maizy Chen’s Last Chance and The Misfits, discussed and read from her children's books. See the recording here!
Saturday, October 19, Minnesota State Fairgrounds
The 24th Annual Twin Cities Book Festival was a rousing success, drawing over 5500 people to celebrate books, authors, and more!
Friday, October 18, Spaces at Mosaic
Charles Baxter celebrated the publication of his novel Blood Test: A Comedy with fellow novelist Miles Harvey.
Thursday, October 17, McNamara Alumni Center
As part of Book Week at the University of Minnesota, Kate DiCamillo offered a meditation on how reading and writing stories can help us become ourselves.
Thursday, October 10, The Loft Literary Center
Dobby Gibson and Carmen Giménez read from their recent publications at this special book launch event for Dobby Gibson's Hold Everything. The two also discussed Gibson's process and inspiration for his newest collection of poems.
Tuesday, October 1, Wisconsin Book Festival
Legendary British author Alan Moore discussed his new novel, The Great When, with Minnesota's own Benjamin Percy on October 1st. Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival was proud to partner with our pals at the Wisconsin Book Festival for this special virtual event. Click here to watch the replay!
Thursday, September 12, Magers & Quinn Booksellers
Alejandro Puyana celebrated his debut novel Freedom Is A Feast to a packed crowd. Puyana discussed the expansive novel following decades of Venezuelan history with fellow Minnesota novelist Nigar Alam.
Wednesday, September 11, Magers & Quinn Booksellers
Katherine Packert Burke discussed her debut novel Still Life with torrin a. greathouse to an enthusiastic crowd. The entertaining conversation explored Burke's profound and piercing tribute to messy webs of queer friendship and what is left behind in transition.
On Friday, May 3, Rain Taxi held a part at the Grenada Theater to celebrate talent in all its forms. See here for a recap of this event!
Hundreds of people participated in the 2024 Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport! Between Wednesday, April 24 and Sunday, April 28, bibliophiles could grab a free Passport from any of the 28 participating bookstores and get them stamped for future book savings. Those intrepid enough to visit 15 stores or all 28 stores were entered into a drawing for fantastic literary prizes. More info here.
Thank you for purchasing tickets for Rain Taxi's BANneD BOOKS fundraising event on Friday, May 3, 7pm at the Granada Theater in Minneapolis!
Your tickets will be held under your name at the Will Call table in the lobby—please check in anytime after 6:30pm to enter the theater. Food and drink are available at the Granada’s Uptown Lobby Bar & Restaurant starting at 5:30 pm; more info about the Granada Theater can be found at https://granadampls.com.
Books and music by the performers, as well as an assortment of chapbooks and broadsides created by Rain Taxi, will be available for purchase at the Rain Taxi table inside the theater.
Thank you again for joining us—we look forward to celebrating with you!
The Granada is located at 3022 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Since Hennepin Ave. is under reconstruction, Hennepin from 31st to Lake St., including in front of the Granada, is closed to drivers. That means people can’t get dropped off except at the backdoor in the alley. So you'll get to take the scenic route to the Granada after you park.
The best place to park is the ramp behind Seven Points (formerly Calhoun Square). Then walk down to 31st, over to Hennepin, and north on Hennepin to the Granada.
Residential street parking is also an option off 31st on cross streets (Holmes, Irving, etc.).
After a little walking adventure from your car to the Granada, you will be ready for a drink, a bite to eat, and a show. We have you covered in all three areas with our celebration of books, bands, and more at BANneD BOOKS.
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Soon, you will receive a letter of thanks from our Executive Director along with your Member Card. Thanks again!
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Darryl Pinckney: The Women Who Shaped Him | interviewed by William Corwin
Jody Hobbs Hesler: Atonement Is Not Transactional | interviewed by Sharon Harrigan
Dorothea Lasky: Why Horror | interviewed by Zachary Pace
Patty Crane: Hues of Translation | interviewed by Dennis Maloney
Travels in Eurasia: Three Books by Erika Fatland | by Rasoul Sorkhabi
The New Life | a comic by Gary Sullivan
A Personal View: Poetry Lost and Found | by Dennis Barone
A Look Back: Mean Spirit | Linda Hogan | by Robbie Orr
Plus cover art by Noah Lawrence-Holder
Dear Jean Pierre | David Wojnarowicz | by Patrick James Dunagan
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith | John Szwed | by Richard Kostelanetz
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality | William Egginton | by David Brizer
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters | Benjamin Moser | by Allan Vorda
New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust | Howard Debs and Matthew Silverman, eds. | by Gale Hemmann
The Pole | J. M. Coetzee | by Thomas Rain Crowe
The Flounder and Other Stories | John Fulton | by Patti Jazanoski
Natural Causes | Nina Lykke | by Jeff Bursey
I Hear You’re Rich | Diane Williams | by Jon Cone
Child Craft | Amy Cipolla Barnes | by Nick Hilbourn
Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-Eaten Pie of Despair | Tom Lucas | by Jason Harris
The Narrow Road Between Desires | Patrick Rothfuss | by J Johnson
All the Ways We Lied | Aida Zilelian | by Mary Lannon
The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo | Anselm Hollo | by Patrick James Dunagan
Disease of Kings | Anders Carlson-Wee | by Christopher Locke
A Place Beyond Shame | Ed Steck | by Joseph Fritsch
School of Instructions | Ishion Hutchinson | by Abby Walthausen
Divination with a Human Heart Attached | Emily Stoddard | by Deborah Bacharach
The Art of Bagging | Joshua Gottlieb-Miller | by Rosanna Young Oh
Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate | James Tate | by Ryan Cook
Choosing To Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming | Tao Yuanming | by John Bradley
Hope is Tanning on a Nudist Beach | Ethel Barja | by Ali Kulez
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story | Julia Wertz | by Greg Baldino
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Noah Lawrence-Holder is a black, nonbinary artist from Madison WI, now based in the Twin Cities. Their work consists of illustration and animations centered around racial justice, equity, intersectionality and gender identity. They have featured work in gallery shows highlighting queer and black artists across Minneapolis and beyond. Visit their website here.
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Lynn Levin: Playthings of Chaos | interviewed by Carolyne Wright
Elizabeth Metzger: In Two Separate Rooms, Breathing | interviewed by Tiffany Troy
Marty Cain: Pastoral Politics | interviewed by J. B. Stone
If and Only If | by Scott F. Parker
A Personal View: The Writer as Publisher | by David Stromberg
A Look Back: Bright Lights, Big City | by Neal Lipschutz
The New Life | a comic by Gary Sullivan
Radical: A Life of My Own | Xiaolu Guo | by Nancy Seidler
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, A Murder, and the Hijacking of History | Benjamin Balint | by W. C. Bamberger
The Bible and Poetry | Michael Edwards | by Patrick James Dunagan
The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield | Charles Burchfield | by Eric Bies
Wildflower | Aurora James | by Connie Mitchell
Charles Portis: Collected Works | Charles Portis | by Mark Dunbar
Notes from the Trauma Party | Michael Keen | by Alec Witthohn
The Belan Deck | Matt Bucher | by Chris Via
Maddalena and the Dark | Julia Fine | by Rachel Slotnick
Retrospective | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | by Jesse Tangen-Mills
What Falls Away | Karin Anderson | by Eleanor J. Bader
Harboring | James Sullivan | by Allan Vorda
Negro Mountain | C. S. Giscombe | by Matthew Kirby
When I Reach for Your Pulse | Rushi Vyas | by Dale Cottingham
Late Epistle | Anne Myles | by AE Hines
Broken Glosa: An Alphabet Book of Post-Avant Glosa | Stephen Bett | by Joe Safdie
The Exhalation Therapist / Breathe A Wor(l)d | Patrick Lawler | by Tara Ballard
Hope as a Construction: New and Selected Poems | David Adams
| by Ellen M. Taylor
Until We Talk | Darrell Bourque and Bill Gingles | by D. O. Moore
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive | Katie Farris | by Jeffrey Careyva
Nice Nose | Buck Downs | by Simon Schuchat
Poets on the Road | Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning | by Kit Robinson
Poetechnics / Poetécnicas: Designs from the New World | Yaxkin Melchy
| by kathy wu
My Picture Diary | Fujiwara Maki | by Jeff Alford
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John Schuerman is a self-taught artist and independent curator. His artwork reflects his deep interest in nature both human and nonhuman. His aesthetic style and social consciousness formed as he grew up on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin. Schuerman is an environmental, and documentary artist, exploring the physical, social, and psychic landscapes through drawing, video, photography, and walking-based art forms. His artwork has been presented in numerous exhibitions locally and nationally.
His curatorial projects engage viewers on today’s most pressing issues: empathy, human overpopulation, gun violence, money, time, nationalism, identity, conflict, environmentalism, and abuses of power. See more of his work online at www.schuermanfineart.com.
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Ronnie Pontiac and American Metaphysical Religion | by Zack Kopp
Grant Maierhofer: Keeping the Circulating Happening | by Alex Kies
Amanda Gunn: Black Pleasure vs. Black Joy | by Eileen G’Sell
If and Only If: Imaginary books reviewed | by Scott F. Parker
The New Life | a comic by Gary Sullivan
Remembering Brian O’Doherty (1928–2022) | by Richard Kostelanetz
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Inquiry, and Hope | Sarah Bakewell | by John Toren
Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, And Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan | Alex Pappedemas and Joan LeMay | by Angelo Gentile
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba | Carlos Manuel Álvarez | by Jesus Francisco Sierra
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City: A Memoir | Jane Wong | by Genevieve Hartman
Soundwriting: A Guide to Making Audio Projects | Tanya K. Rodrigue and Kyle D. Stedman | by Cam Miller
Jean Conner: Collage | Rory Padeken, ed.
Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable | Jennifer R. Gross, Ann Lauterbach, Roger L. Conover, & Dawn Ades, eds.
Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer | Diana Seave Greenwald | by Patrick James Dunagan
Solenoid | Mircea Cărtărescu | by Garin Cycholl
Design Flaw | Hugh Sheehy | by Justin Courter
Opium and Other Stories | Géza Csáth | by Zoe Berkovitz
The English Experience | Julie Schumacher | by Eleanor J. Bader
Welcome Me To The Kingdom | Mai Nardone | by Nick Hilbourn
Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | by Neil Serven
As Far As You Can Go Before You Have To Come Back | Alle C. Hall | by Sandra Hager Eliason
The Loveliest Vowel Empties: Collected Poems | Meret Oppenheim | by John Bradley
Gala | Lynne Shapiro | by Patrick Pritchett
Roadmap: A Choreopoem | Monica Prince | by Alex Carrigan
The Dragonfly | Amelia Rosselli | by Greg Bem
40 Weeks | Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach | by Gale Hemmann
Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise | Anthony Madrid | by David Brazil
Diaries of a Terrorist | Christopher Soto | by Walter Holland
Good Grief, The Ground | Margaret Ray | by Joanna Acevedo
The Planetoid and Other Stories | Joe Orlando and Al Feldstein | by Paul Buhle
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