Minnesota State Fair
A lavishly illustrated, fun-filled history of the Minnesota State Fair complete with Blue Ribbon recipes! State fairs are cornerstones of the American tradition and few are as beloved as the Minnesota...
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Destined to touch every reader’s heart… “Reading this book is about experiencing the Hmong American transformation.” —Minnesota State Senator Mee Moua In search of a place to call home, thousands of...
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Letters illuminating a legendary literary love affair and the young artists who made 1960s New York the world’s cultural capital. “A sad, and wonderful book about a pair of young lovers who completed...
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Family, Photography, and Fate When Judith Kitchen inherited boxes of family photographs and scrapbooks, they sparked curiosity and speculation. Piecing together her memories with the physical evidence...
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Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Andy Sturdevant’s essays offer a new way of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest. Craigslist ads, homemade signs at Target...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Snake Curve
The Devil’s Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in which colo- nialism, jingoism, capitalism, and faith are represented by baseball. Personal and political, it twines Japanese...
View ArticleSidewalks
Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky’s tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable...
View ArticleYou Animal Machine (The Golden Greek)
This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and “the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.” Located in history and memory, the real and...
View ArticleThe Deep Zoo
The Deep Zoo is a record of Rikki Ducornet’s reading of the world, a gathering of alchemies where the unknown has become visible through the medium of art, be they Borges’s tigers and Cortazar’s lions,...
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View ArticleThe Little Free Library Book
What started as a simple idea to promote literacy and encourage community has become a movement. Little Free Libraries—front-yard book exchanges—now number more than 20,000 in 75 countries. This tells...
View ArticleCat Is Art Spelled Wrong
Fourteen writers, all addressing not just our fascination with cat videos, but also how we decide what is good or bad art, or art at all; how taste develops, how that can change, and why we love or...
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View ArticlePretentiousness
Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that’s making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone...
View ArticleUnbearable Splendor
Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over a subject, approaching it from positions of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Borges,...
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