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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: “A Woman’s War, Too: Women at Work During World War II” by Virginia Wright-Peterson

Folks have been thinkng a lot about the second World War these days, remembering how the country came together with a common goal during a frightening period in its history.


MN Reads: “Duluth: An Urban Biography” by Tony Dierckins

Playing the things-could-always-be-worse game isn’t reliably useful to put things in perspective.

But still, 102 years ago, Duluthians were coping with war, flu — and fire.

MN Reads: “OMC Smokehouse Cookbook” by Robert Lillegard

Most of the time, we don’t talk about books that haven’t been published yet on MN Reads, much less books that haven’t even been written.

MN Reads: “Village of Scoundrels” and “The Littlest Voyageur” by Margi Preus

Duluth author Margi Preus joins us to talk about her book launch. Once a shindig as befits the launch of two books at once, it’s become a virtual event online, and we’ll find out how you can take part.

MN Reads: “Staring Down the Tiger: Stories of Hmong American Women” edited by Pa Der Vang

In Hmong culture, it’s an insult to call someone a “tigerbite.”

It means you were stupid enough to approach a tiger and get bitten.


MN Reads: “Birds in Minnesota: Revised and Expanded Edition” by Robert Janssen

33 years after he published Birds in Minnesota, author and birder Bob Janssen returns with a revised and updated edition.


MN Reads: “it’s a totem of our shared dreams”

Book nerds: if you had a 700-year old book in your collection, would you let anyone touch it?


MN Reads: UMD Authors Celebration 2020

“Publish or perish.”

But if success in academia is tied to writing books and journal articles about your research and what you do, how do you let a wider audience know about it?


MN Reads: “Finding Our Way with Native Literature”

Novelist Dr Carter Meland will be on campus tomorrow afternoon giving a talk called “Finding Our Way with Native Literature.”

He’s a senior lecturer in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the author of a book called Stories for a Lost Child.


Steady as a Rock(stad) in Northwest Minnesota!

Ada, Minnesota resident Elizabeth Rockstad, long-time art teacher, has reinvented herself as an artist and teacher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her persistence and love of art has produced a new connection to the residents of Norman County and northwest Minnesota through her small shop in Ada.

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