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Sons of Norway Blog: Nordic Heritage Inspires Author
Interview with Eric Dregni (VIKINGS IN THE ATTIC)
Space Cool Hunting: remixthebook feature
Mark Amerika – Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. - is the author of two novels: The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood, the first Avant-Pop Manifesto and books such as Meta/Data: A Digital Poetics and 29 Inches. He has completely redefined the Concept of Literature and Media_Art because according to him the Net not only promotes a more direct and interactive Author_Reader relation but stimulates the Creation of Radical Artists network that were relegated to the editorial industry microcosms before.
St. Paul Pioneer Press: The War Came Home With Him
"In this beautifully written dual memoir . . . Madison smoothly moves between chapters re-creating her father's terrible imprisonment and her childhood.
St. Joseph Newsleaders feature Peter Smith
St. Joseph Newsleaders highlight local passages from Peter Smith's A CAVALCADE OF LESSER HORRORS.
Star Tribune likes Peter Smith's A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors
Star Tribune reviews MPR essayist Peter Smith's memoir in which he recalls growing up in Chicago, son of a newsman.
Star Tribune: November's Fury
On its 100th anniversary, a new book details a deadly Lake Huron storm.
Star Tribune: 'Part biography, part memoir, and wholly a legal page turner.'
NONFICTION: Roberta Walburn's look at Miles Lord's controversial career as a federal judge is a legal page-turner and an inside history of liberal politics in Minnesota.
Technology and Culture reviews Twilight Rails
The network of rail lines that spread throughout the United States by the end of the nineteenth century proved to be one of the engineering marvels in American history. Contrasted with the excitement that nineteenth-century railroads generated when the industry was still relatively young, rail lines constructed in the first few decades of the twentieth century—twilight rails—traditionally were seen by historians as business failures and lacking in the positive community impact that the older lines had during the heyday of railroad construction. One of the premier historians of railroad history, H. Roger Grant, refutes the long-held interpretation of the twentieth-century lines in Twilight Rails: The Final Era of Railroad Building in the Midwest.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Cause marketing inspires only shopping, say scholars
Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte, authors of BRAND AID: Shopping Well to Save the World, discuss "compassionate consumption."
The Current: DYLAN TAPES book revisits interviews from Bob Dylan's first biography
When An Intimate Biography was published, its most revelatory parts were Scaduto’s depictions of Dylan’s youth in and around Hibbing and Duluth, and his brief stint at the University of Minnesota. In transcript form, this tendency goes deeper.