Can you love animals and eat them, too? Originally published in Mpls/St. Paul magazine, October 2008 Though I’ve been a meat-eater most of my life, I’ve always been squeamish about its preparation. I prefer not to touch bacon until it’s been burned...
Book review in today’s Strib “Love in a ballet is something that does not exist and then suddenly does, its beginning marked by pantomime, faces fixed in rapture, a dance,” Maggie Shipstead explains in the opening act of her new novel, “Astonish Me” (Alfred A....
Margi Preus profile in today’s Strib Middle-grade writer Margi Preus inspired by history Article by: LAURA BILLINGS COLEMAN , Special to the Star Tribune Updated: April 28, 2014 – 3:25 PM Duluth writer Margi Preus has made a name for herself by...
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (Harper Collins, 320 pages, $28.99, 320 pages) “I was always going to be a writer. I’ve known this for as long as I’ve known anything,” Ann Patchett declares in her new collection of personal essays, and she’s got...
What happens when a young chick-lit reader falls in love with the ultimate boy book? My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier has one of the worst spoiler titles in all of juvenile fiction, which may explain why I let it sit so long,...
My round-up of summer paperbacks for today’s Star Tribune. “Vengeance,” by Benjamin Black (Picador, $16) When business titan Victor Delahaye shoots himself during a sailing excursion off the coast of Ireland’s County Cork, the obvious suspect pitches the pistol...
