Why Write?
If the Knitting Ladies serve as any indication, the author of White Teeth, On Beauty, and, most recently, NW, could have blown raspberries into the microphone and still enraptured her audience.
In Defiance of Terror
Rushdie has never been able to hide his disdain for fanaticism’s brutality, but as he stood at the podium it was his sorrow, more than anything, that was most evident. But, he said, “It’s the writers we remember. It’s the writers who outlast the regimes.”
Eaten Alive by Literature
There are two subgroups of launch party in the literary world. Let’s call them, in the taxonomy of events, the genera: Translucent and Opaque. What the fuck does this mean?
Teen Dreams and Time Travel
You’d have to be a unique species of naïf to think questions like these take Molly Ringwald by surprise. Actually, you’d have to be the stupidest person on earth.
Take 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.
An Unintentional Career in Retail
Upcoming Event: Caitlin Kelly Reads from her memoir, Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail Magers & Quinn Thursday, August 11, 7:30 p.m. Although it would certainly take all the frustration out of life…
Not Just GLBT Literature
Beyond the Pure: Queer Voices Annual Pride Reading June 21, Minneapolis Central Library Award winning poet John Medeiros cuts right to the chase. “Minneapolis has a really good literary queer community,” he says….
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 incomparable excitement,…
