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Talking Volumes: A conversation with Sarah Broom

Talking Volumes: A conversation with Sarah Broom

Kerri Miller hosts a conversation with award-winning author Sarah Broom about her book “The Yellow House.”
by Kerri Miller

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'Flamer' offers real hope — not just rainbows — to queer kids

'Flamer' offers real hope — not just rainbows — to queer kids

Mike Curato's new young adult graphic novel “Flamer” follows a teenager struggling with self-hate and all the different parts of his identity — being a Catholic, a Boy Scout, and being gay.
by Juanita Giles

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Art Hounds: Art that allows people to be seen (and heard)

Art Hounds: Art that allows people to be seen (and heard)

Zoom allows audiences to see incarcerated writers reading their work in the annual event from the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshops. Also, essential worker portraits and coronavirus-inspired operas.
by Emily Bright

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'Dark Archives' explores the use of human skin in bookbinding

'Dark Archives' explores the use of human skin in bookbinding

Megan Rosenbloom tells readers an adventurous tale of how her morbid curiosity brought her across an ocean to investigate the origins, motivations and techniques behind this macabre practice.
by Connor Goodwin

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History and hatred drive the horror in 'Ring Shout'

History and hatred drive the horror in 'Ring Shout'

P. Djèlí Clark's new novella is set in an alternate Jim Crow America where the Ku Klux Klan contains actual pointy-headed white demons, and “The Birth Of a Nation” is not just a film but an incantation.
by Danny Lore

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Wisconsin's Country USA and Rock USA festivals call it quits

The company that puts on the 25-year-old Country USA and the 9-year-old Rock USA, two of Wisconsin's biggest annual music festivals, said this week it plans to file for bankruptcy.
by The Associated Press

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Real-world experience gives 'The Nightworkers' its punch

Real-world experience gives 'The Nightworkers' its punch

Brian Selfon spent years working in the criminal justice field, and he brings that knowledge to bear in his debut, about a family of money launderers whose lives are upended when a bag goes missing.
by Gabino Iglesias

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Kao Kalia Yang started out writing her family’s refugee memoir. Now she’s sharing the journeys of others

Kao Kalia Yang started out writing her family’s refugee memoir. Now she’s sharing the journeys of others

The Minnesota author's new book, "Somewhere in the Unknown World," began when she collected her uncle’s story about fleeing Laos. Then she spoke to a Liberian hospital worker, a Karen parent from school, a Jewish singer from Ukraine — and created “a collective refugee memoir.”

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'Where The Wild Ladies Are' is perfect Halloween reading

'Where The Wild Ladies Are' is perfect Halloween reading

Aoko Matsuda's gently supernatural story collection — all about women who are something more than they seem — gets its unearthly feel not from jump scares, but from the quality of the writing.
by Michael Schaub

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