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Leading Lady: Julie Kaiser Talks Zelda Fitzgerald and The Last Flapper

The Last Flapper is a one-woman play co-produced by Visions Theatre and Long Lake Theater that retrospects the life of Zelda Fitzgerald. Wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Flapper shines a spotlight on Zelda's personal experiences of creative genius, repression and passionate pursuit of life.

MN Reads: “On the Shortest Day” Laura Sulentich Fredrickson and illustrated by Laurie Caple

When Laura Sulentich Frederickson was a little girl, she felt sorry for her dad’s birthday being so close to the winter solstice.

After all, kids had to be in before dark, so he couldn’t have gotten much time to play outside with his friends on his birthday.

Maybe we haven’t always needed the return of the light quite the way we do here in 2020, but Frederickson has written a beautiful book to share and read to celebrate the shortest day of the year … and the longer days sure to follow.

On the Shortest Day by Laura Sulentich Fredrickson and illustrated by Laurie Caple is published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

“Pints North: Minnesota’s Craft Beer Culture” by Katelyn Regenscheid

Craft beer exploded on the scene a few years back and Duluth proudly claimed it’s place front and center.

MN Reads: “A Common Thirst” by Gary Boelhower, Illustrated by Sarah Brokke

Gary Boelhower is Duluth’s poet laureate, a long-time teacher of ethics … and a grampa.
So it’s no surprise that he’s been spending a lot of time thinking about “the common good.”

So when those thoughts manifested themselves as a book for children, he put another of his core beliefs into action: “the best things happen when there’s more than one mind and heart workin’ at something.

“Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal” by L. David Mech

Chances are the two or three wolves who wandered over the ice from Minnesota or Canada to Isle Royale 60-some years ago were just looking for something to eat.

It’s not likely they knew they and the moose that would make up their primary diet would become the subjects of decades of research. And chances are they didn’t realize that by becoming the lone predator on an island with essentially one prey species, they were creating the perfect “laboratory.”


Plans, Deadlines, Support and Advocacy for the Arts!

Mara Hanel, Executive Director of the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC), shares detail on a busy-as-a-bee February at the NWMAC!

” Land of 10,000 Plates: Stories and Recipes from Minnesota” by Patrice M. Johnson

Even if we weren’t facing a winter indoors, staring at (or climbing) the same four walls, we’d probably appreciate Patrice Johnson’s new Land of 10,000 Plates, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.


“Animals of Turtle Island” by Tara Perron, illustrated by Jacqueline Paske Gill

While Indigenous children in Minnesota learn plenty of English language, most don’t have a lot of chances to learn the languages of the people who were here first.


“Fix What You Can” by Mindy Greiling

Mindy Greiling thought she knew quite a bit about mental illness.

After all, she’d minored in psychology both as an undergrad and in grad school.

But that was before the voices in her then-21 year old son’s head told him he needed to kill her.

“American Gospel” by Lin Enger

A common trope in fiction pits siblings against one another in some form; maybe they’re vying for the attention of a parent, maybe they’re both in a similar job and struggling for success or control of a company …

But alas, the story of Lin Enger and his brother, novelist Leif Enger, is nowhere near that dramatic.


“The Soup and Bread Cookbook” by Beatrice Ojakangas

Bea Ojakangas’ mother always said you could never go wrong ordering soup.


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