Books

The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking: Review

By Mary Schoen, Special to the TC Daily Planet
Jay Walljasper, former editor of the Utne Reader, focuses on ways to create community.

City planners and big developers are not the only ones who can transform a community.

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Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart: Review

By Mary Schoen & Avrielle Adams, Special to the TC Daily Planet
Lucette Diana Kensack was raised by bears from the time she was eight-years-old until she grew too big to live with them in the den.MORE »

Local educator turns childhood reflections, student profiles into a book

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Black child, white mom – life experience informs author.MORE »

Wole Soyinka Celebrated at Theatrical Conference

By Swallehe Msuya, Mshale

Wole Soyinka speaking at the American Theater Communications Group National Conference held in Minneapolis in June. Photo courtesy of the Guthrie Theater

Wole Soyinka (73), Africa’s first Nobel Prize-winning poet, playwright and activist - and indeed Africa’s literary Ambassador, was the main speaker at the American Theatre Communications Group NationaMORE »

Angela Henry brings vibrant gumshoe misadventurer to life

By Dwight Hobbes, Insight News
Angela Henry has done it again. Once more, she brings to vibrant life the misadventures of her delightful amateur gumshoe Kendra Clayton.MORE »

A haven for scribes

By Michelle Bruch, Downtown Journal
At the Open Book building on a recent Friday, the Loft Literary Center’s Nancy Gaschott pulled out a black-and-white photograph of a meeting room in shambles.MORE »

Far from the 'Well of Loneliness'

By Nancy Hedin, Minnesota Women's Press
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Minnesota is rich in lesbian writers, and they're a prolific group of women who write in a variety of genres-from veteran mystery novelist Ellen Hart, who has 23 novels under her belt, to poet Morgan MORE »

Metamorphosis: North of the Cities

By Connie Wanek, MN Artist
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The poems of Louis Jenkins have gotten funnier over the years. It’s a natural progression, perhaps—one ages, one makes jokes about it.MORE »

Ephemeral Impressions: Minnesota on Paper

By Connie Wanek, MN Artists
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Perhaps you have held onto those Bob Dylan ticket stubs for years, or maybe you kept a pristine bumper sticker from the last political campaign you cared about.MORE »

A catalog of the streetscape

By Michelle Bruch, Downtown Journal
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Larry Millett’s book, AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, provides block-by-block look at architecture

Author Larry Millett, a former architecture critic for the Pioneer Press, spent three

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