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Want to hear local authors share their new work? Throughout June and July three writers featured in the Ebooks MN collection will be reading from their latest books.
Want to hear local authors share their new work? Throughout June and July three writers featured in the Ebooks MN collection will be reading from their latest books. For more literary happenings in the Twin Cities area, check out Rain Taxi, a Minneapolis-based literary non-profit, for a full list of events.
Iric Nathanson, local historian and author, is a well-published essayist in the Star Tribune, Minnesota History, and Hennepin History. He is perhaps best known for his book Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century: The Growth of an American City, a political history published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, which was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in 2010. Another one of his books, The Minneapolis Riverfront, is part of Ebooks MN. He presents his new book from Arcadia Publishing and the History Press, World War I Minnesota:
Thursday, June 9 , 7pm – 8pm at Common Good Books, 38 Snelling Ave S, St Paul
Eric Dregni, author of the By the Waters of Minnetonka, is a respected professor and author of a variety of books on recreation and Minnesotan, Norwegian, and Italian culture. Eric discusses and signs copies of his new book from the University of Minnesota Press, Let's Go Fishing!: Fish Tales from the North Woods:
Saturday, June 25, 12pm – 1pm at St Peder's Lutheran Church, 4600 E 42nd St, Minneapolis
Larry Watson, well-known fiction writer of work set in the American West, is a part of Ebooks MN for his book Justice. He reads from his new publication As Good As Gone:
Tuesday, July 12, 7pm – 8pm at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Ebooks Minnesota is a two-year pilot project of Minitex and State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education. The collection was made possible in part by funding from the Minnesota Department of Education through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and by Minitex.
