Death Roll: Review

By Mary Schoen, Special to the TC Daily Planet
With the title of Death Roll and a picture graphic of an open crocodile jaw on its cover, it would not be giving too much away to say that a giant reptile kills someone in this book.MORE »

Chris Shillock: Successor to the beatnik poets

By Dwight Hobbes, Special to the TC Daily Planet
If you’re not quite old enough to know, ask your mama what a beatnik is.MORE »

Minneapolis superintendent writes about St. Paul schools

By Staff, Special to the TC Daily Planet
Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Bill Green studied how to operate an all-black school economically. First, you pay the teacher $35 a month.MORE »

Ani Difranco in Minneapolis

By Colette Davidson, Special to the TC Daily Planet

Photo by Erick Lewis

The Righteous Babe herself, singer-songwriter Ani Difranco, made a last-minute appearance at Minneapolis’s Parkway Theater at 48th and Chicago on Thursday night, previewing her concert tonight at tMORE »

Angela Shannon ‘obeys the Spirit’ through poetry

By Susan Budig, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Local writer acknowledged among top MN poets

It may not have been as dramatic as the calling of a novitiate to spurn all worldly goods and commit her life to a convent, but Angela Shannon se

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Minnesota Book Awards nominations open

By Staff, Special to the TC Daily Planet
All the old favorites plus a new nonfiction category for Minnesota-focused nonfiction.

The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library announced this week that nominations for the 20th annual M

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Water women

By Norma Smith Olson, Minnesota Women's Press
Nancy Scheibe is gathering women’s wisdom as she paddles down the Mississippi River

It was an amazing plan: To mark her 50th birthday, Nancy Scheibe decided to paddle by canoe and kayak the

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Black to the future

By Stephani Maari Booker, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Sci-fi novelist Andrea Hairston was the guest of honor at Diversicon, a sci-fi/fantasy convention held in Bloomington Aug 3-5.
Photo by Misha Oneby

Diversity-themed sci-fi/fantasy convention highlighted African American writers

The late science fiction novelist Octavia Butler was a “posthumous guest of honor” at Diversicon, a science fi

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On the shoulders of lions

By Stephen Brunia-Brown, Minneapolis World Beat
Those in the know are buzzing about an African literary renaissance.

An interesting article that appeared in Vanity Fair in July and has been republished on MORE »

From the Farm to the Table What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture

By Brian Devore, Land Stewardship Project
Gary Holthaus spent three years gathering material for From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture. With a ponderous title like that, one would think you couldMORE »
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