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Hello friends of M&Q,
This month, along with our usual lineup of in-store events, we hope we'll see you at the Loft's Wordplay festival. Magers & Quinn is an official bookseller partner and will be selling books at multiple locations throughout the festival!
We'll also be out and about during Art-A-Whirl®, with a panel featuring author and TV host Eric Gorges and a panel of local artisans.
Next, we welcome Max Porter back to Minneapolis for his new novel, Lanny. He'll be in conversation with Fiona McCrae of Graywolf Press at the lovely Grace-Trinity Church.
So whatever neighborhood you find yourself in, there's a lot of potential for bookish fun all month.
See you around town,
Annie
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Heidi Barr
Wednesday, May 1
7:00 p.m. at Magers & Quinn
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What Comes Next
From disbelief to financial concerns to anxiety over the prospect of a two hour commute after ten years of working from home, this essay explores the uncertainty of not knowing what might be coming next, along with the potential for uncovering the beauty that might just be hidden under what feels like destruction.
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Maria Kusnetsova
Thursday, May 2
7:00 p.m. at Magers & Quinn
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Maria Kuznetsova presents Oksana, Behave!
When Oksana's family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life—and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting herself in trouble.
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Joan Crosby
Monday, May 6
7:00 p.m. at Magers & Quinn
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Tucker Lake Chronicle
Fifty years ago, Joan Crosby and her husband, Dick, moved from the Minneapolis suburbs to spend a winter on the outskirts of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in a primitive one-room cabin without road access or modern conveniences.
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Magers & Quinn at Wordplay
Saturday, May 11 & Sunday, May 12
10am - 5pm
Downtown Minneapolis
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Magers & Quinn is an official bookseller for the Loft's Wordplay festival in Minneapolis.
Wordplay aims to be the biggest celebration of readers, writers, and great books that Minnesota has ever seen. Catch authors like Stephen King, Amy Tan, David Treuer, Mitch Albom, Morgan Parker, Nicole Chung, Nora McInerny, Dave Barry, Jared Diamond, and more! Visit us at our main sales tent or at many of the stages and author signings.
Bring the kids - there are plenty of children's and young adult authors reading and signing, and our pals Red Balloon will be selling their books!
$10 registration includes a $5 book voucher to use at any of the official bookstore partners!
Register Here
Learn about the festival and read FAQs here
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RESCHEDULED: Robert Rorke
Thursday, May 16
7:00 p.m. at Magers & Quinn
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Car Trouble
Set in 1970s Brooklyn, Car Trouble is an uncommonly warm coming of age debut novel from a fierce new talent. The story follows Nicky Flynn: an aspiring young actor at St. Michaels Diocesan high school. Nicky is keenly observant—especially when it comes to his abusive, alcoholic father, Patrick. Enigmatic, coasting on charm and desperation, Patrick enjoys picking up old junkers for cheap at NYPD auctions—each sputtering, tail-finned treasure subsidized by poker games. But when Patrick’s love for broken-down vintage cars begins to rival his obsession with alcohol, he threatens his family’s stability and careens wildly out of control.
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Eric Gorges
with local artists James Brenner, Kim Heidcamp, and Julie Nelson
Saturday, May 18
1:00 p.m. at Magers & Quinn
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A Craftsman's Legacy Panel Discussion
A Craftsman's Legacy is filled with insights‑‑about the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of craftsmanship‑‑from calligraphers, bit and spur makers, potters, stone carvers, glassblowers, engravers, wood workers, and others. Gorges identifies shared values: take time to slow down and enjoy the process; embrace failure; know when to stop and when to push through; accept that perfection is an illusion.
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Phyllis Root and Betsy Bowen
Sunday, May 19
5:00 p.m. at Magers & Quinn
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The Lost Forest
The Lost Forest tells the story of this lucky error and of the 144 acres of old-growth red and white pine it preserved. With gentle humor, Phyllis Root introduces readers to the men at their daunting task, trekking across Minnesota, measuring and marking the vast land into townships and sections and quarters. She takes us deep into a stand of virgin pine, one of the last and largest in the state, where U.S. history and natural history meet. With the help of Betsy Bowen's finely observed and beautiful illustrations, she shows us all the life that can be found in the Lost Forest.
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Max Porter
in conversation with Fiona McCrae of Graywolf Press
Monday, May 20
7:00pm at Grace-Trinity Church
1430 W 28th St, Minneapolis, MN 55408
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Lanny: A Novel
Lanny is the entrancing new novel by Max Porter, the award-winning author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
In a village an hour from London, with a pub, a church, and redbrick cottages, a mythical figure known by local schoolchildren as Dead Papa Toothwort awakens after a long nap. He listens to the symphony of voices around him: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home: Lanny.
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M&Q in the field: Affiliated Events around town
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Pen Pals: presented by the Hennepin County Library
Magers & Quinn has enjoyed a long partnership with the Hennepin County Library, selling books at its lecture series Pen Pals (a ticketed event held at Hopkins Center for the Arts) and Talk of the Stacks (held at the Central Library in downtown Minneapolis).
This month features a Pen Pals by bestselling author Celeste Ng, touring for her new book Little Fires Everywhere
Pen Pals with Celeste Ng
Friday, May 3
10:00am
Hopkins Center for the Arts
1111 Mainstreet
Hopkins, MN 55343
SOLD OUT
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Global Conversations: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness
Presented by Global Minnesota
Join Global Minnesota and Magers & Quinn for a special program with author Denise Uwimana as she shares her testimony and discusses Rwanda’s turbulent history and the projects and programs established to promote healing, renovation, and community building in the region. The evening will include a Q&A session.
Wednesday, May 15
6:00 PM
Minneapolis Central Library
300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401
FREE
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Want to hire a bookseller for an event?
If you are a private organization, business, or community group and wish to have books for sale at an upcoming event, we can help! Contact us for more information on sales packages and rates!
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Store Hours
Store Hours: 10am - 10pm
Pickup hours: 10am - 7pm
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Magers and Quinn Booksellers is an independently owned bookseller of new and used books, located in Minneapolis, MN. For nearly 27 years, we've been a resource where anyone can find a book to love. Over the past months, we have adjusted and reorganized much of our operations due to COVID-19, but we are still selling books online and in-store, and are now hosting virtual author events on our social media.
We are closely following CDC guidelines and recommendations for cleaning, distancing, and health monitoring. We are very excited to welcome our community into our Uptown store, or into our virtual store at magersandquinn.com. Our staff of friendly booksellers loves to help customers find the perfect book. |
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