Lester Literary Update: Book Awards, Local Pubs, Minnesota Masks, etc.
Hello all,
As you know, tough times are here. More are coming. As much as our local bookstores need our help, so do our local publications. Now would be a great time to subscribe (or donate) to any of those below, if you can.
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Lester
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Pandemic related:
New alternative to Amazon: Bookshop.org (Washington Post story here.)
Stuck at home? Listen to radio stations around the world: Radio Garden
The Zoom social etiquette guide (BBC)
Need a mask? Get one of these Minnesota designed/themed ones from Replace Everything
News:
Congrats to all the Minnesota Book Award Winners!!! (Star Tribune story here.)
(Bonus: Four of this year’s recipients—Kao Kalia Yang, Marlon James, Sheila O’Connor and Su Hwang—have essays in Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology, three of which are available nowhere else. Get your copy!)
Naomi Kritzer won the Edgar YA Award for Catfishing on CatNet. (Laurie Hertzel reports.)
McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers were announced. Congratulations to all! (Star Tribune story here.)
Marlon James won the Los Angeles Times’s Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction for Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
The Spring 2020 Rain Taxi is out.
Stories/Books:
Stephanie Pearson at Outside: The Man Who Runs 365 Marathons a Year
Mara Hvistendahl at Wired: Everybody and His Dog Is Trying to Sell Medical Equipment’
Emily Sohn: at Outside: How to Manage Cabin Fever
Jared Goyette at The Guardian: Minnesota landlord charged over eviction attempt during pandemic
Axel Holt: The Bounty Hunter of Superior North, by Joe Field
Excerpt from Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham in Esquire: The Nominee. Publishers Weekly profile here: Curtis Sittenfeld Rewrites History
New essay collection from Michael Perry: Big Boy’s Big Rig: The Leftovers