Notable Twin Cities: 11/12–11/18
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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2017
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What to Read When You Want to Read an “Uncomfortable” Book
Authors whose works have been challenged or banned give recommendations on other "uncomfortable" books that will make you a better person for having read them.
HORN! REVIEWS: American War
War takes and takes, and what's left untouched is locked up in the past, reachable only by memory.
The Dangers of the Earth’s Extremes: Jessica Goodfellow’s Whiteout
The poems in Whiteout pull together an array of topics and well-developed craft, making it a complex book emotionally, thematically, and technically.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in very obvious headlines: dinosaurs might not be extinct had asteroid struck elsewhere. China is totally going to beat us to aliens. Let’s all take a trip inside Bogota’s…
The Story We Have Yet to Tell: Talking with Haroon Moghul
Haroon Moghul discusses How to Be a Muslim: An American Story, his own religious journey, and the blessings that come with being an outsider.
The Rumpus Mini Interview #109: Anaïs Duplan
"The freedom to have a sovereign identity is so often a trap. It’s impossible."
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Michael Bazzett
Nothing’s more delicious than licking the salty // fat from your enemies’ bones. Tastes a bit like / chicken.