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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: “Gidjie and the Wolves” by Tashia Hart

When we have to take a deep dive into things we’d rather avoid, we call it a character-building experience.

Jaws Part 1

The Real College Podcast team put together a radio play based on the 1975 film “Jaws.” Here is the first part.


MN Reads: “Surgical Renaissance in the Heartland” by Henry Buchwald

Forty percent of people who developed bowel obstructions died of them, up until the 1960s.

Now it’s less than four percent.


MN Reads: “Fishing” begets a new trilogy by Sarah Stonich

If you knew a professional “fisherwoman” (“fisherperson”) who became an accidental host of a fishing show on public television, had a fixer-upper house and a clingy rescue dog, would you want to stay in touch?


MN Reads: “French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris” by Scott Dominic Carpenter

Scott Carpenter teaches French literature, literary theory, and cross-cultural studies at Carleton College in Northfield.

So when it came time for him to take a sabbatical, he thought, why not pack up my wife and teenage daughter and go live in Paris for a while?


MN Reads: “The Wolf’s Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves” by Thomas D. Peacock

When Tom and Elizabeth Peacock started Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing, one of their goals was to create Native children’s books for all audiences, written and illustrated by Native writers and artists.

Thomas’s novel, The Wolf’s Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves, is out now and it gives readers of all ages a glimpse of Ojibwe traditions, stories, and cultural knowledge through a work of fiction.


MN Reads: “How Good Are You Willing To Let It Get?” by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann

What started last year as a 100-day challenge and then a way to reach out to friends on social media has become physician-turned-shamanic-healer Sarah Bamford Seidelmann’s new book.


MN Reads: “Minnesota’s Black Community in the 21st Century” by Anthony R. Scott et al.

“You can’t be what you don’t see.”

That’s why Anthony Scott and Dr. Chaunda Scott are so dedicated to continuing their father’s work. Walter Scott produced a series of books profiling the African-American community of the times (The Scott Collection: Minnesota’s Black Community in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s) and his children, already working with a non-profit called Minnesota’s Black Community Project, released their new book this month.

MNR: “Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison” by Deborah Appleman

Deborah Appleman loves the quote from Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

MN Reads: “Secrets of the Loon” by Laura Purdie Salas and photographed by Chuck Dayton

Chuck Dayton has been taking pictures of loon families on his little lake near Ely for many of the 63 years he’s been spending summers there.


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