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April 2024 Events from Magers & Quinn

Aarron Sholar presents The Body of a Frog in conversation with Ty Bo Yule In-Store Event: Wednesday, 4/3 @ 7pm - Registration Required In The Body of a Frog: A Memoir on Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Transgender Pregnancy, Sholar offers a raw, authentic account of his experiences. He navigates the complexities of his body, the transition journey, and the unexpected possibility of pregnancy with a heartfelt and introspective approach.

Wed, Apr 3, 2024 7:00 PM CST Aarron Sholar presents The Body of a Frog in conversation with Ty Bo Yule Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Mark Cecil presents Bunyan and Henry in conversation with Benjamin Percy In-Store Event: Thursday, 4/4 @ 7pm - Registration Required A richly imaginative reinvention of myth, Bunyan and Henry is at once a timeless quest, a fresh origin story, and an urgent modern fable that wrestles with the two sides of the American dream—its wild idealism and cruel underbelly—to inspire the awakening of the folk hero in us all.

Thu, Apr 4, 2024 7:00 PM CST Mark Cecil presents Bunyan and Henry in conversation with Benjamin Percy Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Our Fight: Ronda Rousey and Maria Burns Ortiz in conversation In-Store Event: Monday, 4/8 @ 7pm - Registration Required WAITLIST ONLY! This event is at capacity.

Mon, Apr 8, 2024 7:00 PM CST Our Fight: Ronda Rousey and Maria Burns Ortiz in conversation Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Poetry Night with Carolyn Light Bell and Paula Cisewski In-Store Event: Wednesday, 4/10 @ 7pm - Registration Required Carolyn Light Bell’s collection of poems were begun from the moment her son, Joshua, was born, 47 years ago, an extraordinary child, and throughout his life. This collection includes poems written through the last three years following Joshua’s death, as Light Bell and her family learn to cope through support of professionals, friends and activity. Her poems are filled with suffering borne of loss; yet she documents with humor and grace her ideas on how to continue operating with hope, compassion and love. In Ceremonies for No Repair, Paula Cisewski challenges us to examine our grief for the depths of our care. Set in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, this hybrid of poetry, prose, and images is a collage of personal and universal sorrows: a surprise divorce, an uprising, a mother’s death in quarantine. Less narrative than aggregate, it is a book about staying present and moving both with and through. It is an accrual of small moments and actions that, together, gesture toward hope.

Wed, Apr 10, 2024 7:00 PM CST Poetry Night with Carolyn Light Bell and Paula Cisewski Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

John J. Waters presents River City One In-Store Event: Thursday, 4/11 @ 7pm - Registration Required The hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself. The tale of a man and the memory that haunts him, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war, he has become a man on the edge, quietly raging against the people he must now work for and live among—the kind of people incapable of understanding the terror he felt in combat and the guilt he carries in his heart.

Thu, Apr 11, 2024 7:00 PM CST John J. Waters presents River City One Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Kelly Hill presents A Home for Friendless Women, in conversation with Elizabeth Weiss In-Store Event: Tuesday, 4/16 @ 7pm - Registration Required In Victorian-era Louisville, the Home for Friendless Women is run by benevolent benefactors with one mission: to reform the fallen women who live there into pious mothers and wives through religious lessons and hard work. For Ruth, a college student who’s expelled after a campus sexual assault, the Home is a purgatory to endure before she can get her life back. For Belle, a queer sex worker who exchanged her bed at a brothel for one in the Home, it’s a safe place to rest her feet until she can track down her missing lover. And for Minnie, the daughter of the religious couple who founded the charity, the Home is her mother’s idea of a cautionary tale. But as Minnie prepares for the Home’s silver anniversary party, she finds herself questioning the true cost of good intentions—and grappling with a terrible secret that has the power to unravel the Home entirely.

Tue, Apr 16, 2024 7:00 PM CST Kelly E. Hill presents A Home for Friendless Women Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Roger Barr presents A Murder on the Hill In-Store Event: Wednesday, 4/17 @ 7pm - Registration Required In A Murder on the Hill, Roger Barr takes a deep dive into the archives, using photos, letters, and maps to vividly capture the economic, race, and sex/gender relationships of the Depression era as well as subsequent implications for today. An astonishing portrait of working-class St. Paul emerges as a result.

Wed, Apr 17, 2024 7:00 PM CST Roger Barr presents A Murder on the Hill Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Nam Le presents 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem in conversation with Bao Phi Virtual Event! Thursday, 4/18 @ 7pm Central - Registration Required In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature—in a virtuosic array of forms and registers—before shattering the form itself.  In line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity—and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma.

Thu, Apr 18, 2024 7:00 PM CST Nam Le presents 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Tickets

The U of M MFA in Creative Writing presents The Mill City Reading Series In-Store Event: Sunday, 4/21 @ 5pm - Registration Required Magers & Quinn is proud to welcome back The Mill City Reading Series, a monthly showcase of works-in-progress by MFA in Creative Writing students at the University of Minnesota.  The showcase is free and open to the public. Speakers and genres vary every month. Come support these emerging writers on Sunday, April 21. Other series dates are Sunday, February 18 and Sunday, March 17.

Sun, Apr 21, 2024 5:00 PM CST The Mill City Reading Series Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Poetry Night with Sharon Chmielarz, Freya Manfred, and Norita Dittberner-Jax In-Store Event: Wednesday, 4/24 @7pm - Registration Required Duet in the Little Blue Church: In this impressive volume poet Sharon Chmielarz had drawn from a lifetime of work—four decades and fourteen books in all—to present a representative selection of her wide-ranging poetic interests and imagination. When I Was Young and Old: As the title suggests, Freya Manfred’s new collection of poetry and prose explores those evocative yet often illusive connections between experience, memory, and emotion. World Enough and Time: This volume contains new poems along with a retrospective look at Norita Dittberner-Jax’s long career as a poet. The themes and images vary, as have the phases of her personal life, though an underlying continuum of family and community connections is ever-present.

Wed, Apr 24, 2024 7:00 PM CST Poetry Night with Sharon Chmielarz, Freya Manfred, & Norita Dittberner-Jax Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Translation Book Club - In the Company of Men In-Store Event: Thursday, 4/26 @ 6pm - Registration Required Join us for the April meeting of the Magers & Quinn Translation Book Club. This month, we'll be discussing Véronique Tadjo's In the Company of Men, translated by the author!

Thu, Apr 25, 2024 6:00 PM CST Translation Book Club - In the Company of Men Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Alice Winn presents In Memoriam in conversation with Patrick Nathan In-Store Event: Friday, 4/26 @ 7pm - Registration Required It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

Fri, Apr 26, 2024 7:00 PM CST Alice Winn presents In Memoriam in conversation with Patrick Nathan Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Steve Almond and Kate DiCamillo in conversation Virtual Event! Monday, 4/29 @ 7pm Central - Registration Required Join Steve Almond and Kate DiCamillo for an online discussion on the craft of writing! In Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow, Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble rouser. His tone is irreverent. His ideas are iconoclastic. And his approach is stubbornly, radically, empathic. The goal is to explode the well-meaning but misguided myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and most honest work.

Mon, Apr 29, 2024 7:00 PM CST Steve Almond and Kate DiCamillo in conversation Tickets

Christopher P. Lehman presents It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom In-Store Event: Tuesday, 4/30 @ 7pm - Registration Required In It Took Courage, the remarkable story of Eliza Winston’s battle for freedom is given full expression. Lehman’s skillful description shows Winston as a capable, mature woman who understood her life and her values. Eliza Winston made the bold decision to leave behind everything she had known for an uncertain but free future. An appreciation of her story is essential for understanding the legacy of slavery in America.

Tue, Apr 30, 2024 7:00 PM CST Christopher P. Lehman presents It Took Courage Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

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