COLUMNS
Book Report: Murder, intrigue are prime topics this week 
Kudos to Julie Kramer for yet another well-told mystery entitled “Silencing Sam” (Atria, $23.99).
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 16, 2010
Book Report: Concentration on hierarchies rather than product can be fatal in corporate world
Recently New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that years ago the motto was as “General Motors Goes, So Goes the Nation.” He followed by saying, “I’m very glad that isn’t true today.”
June 25, 2010
Book Report: Baseball’s a hit this week
Years back I remember hearing WCCO’s Ray Christensen and the late Dave Moore reminisce about when they were neighbors growing up in south Minneapolis.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 11, 2010
Book Report: Cherma captured in poetry
Back in 1920, Edgar Lee Masters, who grew up in a small Midwestern college town wrote a wonderful book of poems about the kind of people who settled his town of Galesburg, Ill.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 05, 2010
Book Reviews: A Minnesota favorite captured in recorded dialog
Here’s a book that the fans of the late Jon Hassler have been waiting for.
It’s “Conversations With Jon Hassler,” by Joseph Plut (Nodin Press, $19.95 paper). And you don’t even have to be a fan to appreciate what Plut has done.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 27, 2010
Book Report: Entertaining local topic will stir many memories
In 2003, Minneapolis native Samuel Hynes, retired Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University, wrote a wonderful book, “The Growing Seasons,” about what life was like growing up in south Minneapolis in the 1930s.
April 23, 2010
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