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    January 19, 2018
    Craig MacIntosh
    Wolf enters a new adventure
    A Rosemount author entertains readers with absorbing adventure novels today, but for years he made people laugh with humor and satire as a newspaper...
    entertainment/booksJanuary 19, 2018 - 6:58am
    January 3, 2018
    Afton author Diane Dettmann released her newest novel, "On Liberty's Wings," in October. Image courtesy of the author
    Author revisits American internment camp survivor's life in new novel
    For many Japanese Americans, the trauma of World War II internment camps lingered long after their release. In her newest novel, "On Liberty's...
    entertainment/booksJanuary 3, 2018 - 7:49am
    June 30, 2017
    Courtesy of Jerry Rice.
    Sex trafficking problem inspires Prescott author to finish 'Raven Avenging'
    Should a citizen ever take the law into their own hands? Gunnar "Raven" Ravendal grapples with the question after his niece is murdered by sex...
    community/eventsJune 30, 2017 - 9:38am
    March 1, 2017
    Author Jamie Ford reads a selection from his book, "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet," at the Hastings Arts Center. (Submitted photo)play button
    Hastings Reads main event fills HAC
    Hastings Reads, Hastings' annual community reading program, has ended. This year's main event was held Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the Hastings Arts...
    entertainmentMarch 1, 2017 - 1:00pm
    February 21, 2017
    Author Jon Oleson to visit Feb. 23
    Jon Oleson, a Bloomington City Council member, will read portions of his book, "What Legacy Are We Giving Our Kids?" and facilitate a conversation about the issues raised in his book when he visits Hastings Thursday, Feb. 23. The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. at BreakAway Café,...
    entertainmentFebruary 21, 2017 - 1:00pm
    January 25, 2017
    Hastings Reads kicks off
    Hastings Reads is about to get started for 2017. Hastings Reads is a community-wide reading program that seeks to encourage reading and discussion of books and the ways in which they can help us understand the lives and experiences of ourselves and others. This year's theme is "The...
    community/eventsJanuary 25, 2017 - 9:11am
    January 23, 2017
    Ann Makena has authored two inspirational books in the past two years, both based on her own life. (Submitted photo)
    Local woman achieves dream of authorship through personal journals
    Hastings resident Ann Makena has dreamed of being an author since she was a student in high school in her native country, Kenya. "I always was...
    newsJanuary 23, 2017 - 12:11pm
    November 16, 2016
    Author Sheyna Galyan comes to Bierstube Nov. 17
    Minnesota Author Sheyna Galyan will meet with readers at the Bierstube in Hastings at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 as part of the monthly “Bookstube at the Bierstube” author event. This event is free and open to the public. Galyan will share stories about her life as an author and more and...
    entertainmentNovember 16, 2016 - 10:18am
    October 18, 2013
    Book Report: This witty wonder may be for you
    This witty wonder may be for you My literary almanac tells me that on this day in 1854, Oscar O’Flahertie Fingal Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. Wilde, once the toast of venues as varied as London, England and Deadwood, S.D.
    entertainmentOctober 18, 2013 - 8:53am
    October 4, 2013
    “Suitable Accommodations—An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963.” Katherine A. Powers, editor. 450 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $35. (Frank Scherschel/Time Life Pictures via Getty)
    Book Report: Doing a father, and a graceful writer, proud
    It’s commonplace for Minnesota readers to get together and talk about the state’s greatest novelists. Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott...
    opinion/columnsOctober 4, 2013 - 12:01pm
    August 29, 2013
    Book Report: Literary tribute to this couple is overdue
    England’s Edwardian Era is a fascinating one, indeed. It succeed the staid Victorian era and with the death of Victoria around the turn of the century, her aged son Edward VII ascended the throne and a whole new way of life for the English opened up. Well, not for everybody,...
    entertainmentAugust 29, 2013 - 12:40pm
    August 22, 2013
    Book Report: Civil War Diaries give poignant glimpses
    Kevin Alderson is a retired high school history teacher over in LaFarge.
    entertainmentAugust 22, 2013 - 9:33am
    August 9, 2013
    Book Report: Arabian legend, tailored coats revived
    Just about the time you think you’ll scream if you’re confronted with another monumental biography, another epic movie, an enigmatic play about T.E. Lawrence, along comes journalist Scott Anderson with a monumental tome, titled “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly...
    entertainmentAugust 9, 2013 - 12:51pm
    August 1, 2013
    Book Report: Not a waste to read poet’s letters
    Twenty years ago, when I was made book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, I wrote a column in which I described to my readers what kind of books and authors I liked and didn’t care for, so they would know my prejudices from the get-go. In one paragraph, I mentioned...
    entertainmentAugust 1, 2013 - 10:06am
    July 25, 2013
    Book Report: Even a grudging reader will like these stories
    If you’re a science fiction buff, have I got a book for you to take to the lake.
    entertainmentJuly 25, 2013 - 3:13pm
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