Notable Twin Cities: 8/12–8/18

Monday 8/13: Stephen Dillon will present Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State. Moon Palace Books, 7 p.m, free.

Tuesday 8/14: Sam Stephenson will present Gene Smith’s Sink: A Wide-Angle View, featuring a short film by Jem Cohen and moderated by Brad Zellar. Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 7 p.m., free.

Wednesday 8/15: Join Moon Palace Books for an event with Kate Schatz celebrating the release of Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women. Moon Palace Books, 6:30 p.m., free.

Thursday 8/16: Join Rain Taxi at Soo Visual Arts Center and groove to their latest chapbook, Elizabeth Gregory, with author Kevin Carollo and special guests. Soo Visual Arts Center, 7 p.m., free.

Join SubText Books in the store for a reading with Kimberly J. Brown for her book The I-35W Bridge Collapse: A Survivor’s Account of America’s Crumbling Infrastructure. Book signing to follow. SubText Books, 7 p.m., free.

Poet, essayist, and translator P. Scott Cunningham joins us in the bookstore to read from his debut poetry collection, Ya Te Veo. Scott will be joined Twin Cities-based poets Michael Kleber-Diggs and Katharine Rauk. Milkweed Books, 7 p.m., free.

Saturday 8/18: Chat with Priscilla Paton about her debut novel Where Privacy Dies. Once Upon a Crime, 12 p.m., free.

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Here’s a thing: October is only two months away and Rain Taxi has released some of their featured author lineup for the Twin Cities Book Festival. Check it out and get excited!

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Please email any event listings you’d like to see to [email protected].

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Notable Twin Cities logo designed by Tyler Barton.

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Abby Anderson is a fiction writer and an MFA candidate at Hamline University. She lives in Minneapolis with an extra large cat, many books, and lots of crap from estate sales.

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