Lindsay Chervinsky will present Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic. For more information, click here. 

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In honor of National Poetry Month, four local poets read from their latest collections:  Sharon Chmielarz, Stan Kusunoki, Sagira Shahid, and Marg Walker. For more information, click here.

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Tamara Dean will present River Bellweathers. For more information, click here. 

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Miriam Wade will present The Woman of Blythe Manor. For more information, click here. 

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V.T. Bidania will present A Year Without Home. For more information, click here. 

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The Esther Freier Lectures in Literature Series presents bestselling authors Celeste Ng and Attica Locke, moderated by V. V. Ganeshananthan. For more information, click here. 

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Poetry Night with Annette Gagliardi, Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison and William Anderson. For more information, click here. 

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Kao Kalia Yang will present The Blue House I Loved and A Home on the Page. For more information, click here. 

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Carl Elliott will present Occasional Human Sacrifice. For more information, click here. 

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Mary Lucia will present What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder To Relate To, with Star Tribune music critic Chris Riemenschneider. For more information, click here. 

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Club Book featuring Sara Hashem, author of The Jasad Heir (2023) and The Jasad Crown (2025). For more information, click here. 

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Laurie Hertzel will present Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth, in conversation with Chris Hewitt. For more information, click here. 

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Rewind Book Fair brings the nostalgia of classic childhood book fairs to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds Grandstand with a weekend celebration of books, creativity, and community. The event will feature more than 200 exhibitors, including independent bookstores, publishers, local writers and artists, and literary-inspired makers.

Visitors can browse books, meet authors, and explore interactive experiences designed to recreate the excitement of traditional school book fairs — with a grown-up twist.

Featured authors appearing throughout the weekend include Kate DiCamillo (“Because of Winn-Dixie”), Peter S. Beagle (“The Last Unicorn”), Gail Carson Levine (“Ella Enchanted”), Bruce Coville (“My Teacher Is an Alien”), Aaron Reynolds (“Effin’ Birds”), and Ellen Hopkins, a New York Times bestselling author of 14 novels. For more information, click here.

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Discussing The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin. For more information, click here.

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Vivek Sinha will present Mom, Across the Miles. For more information, click here. 

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Melvin Gibbs will present How Black Music Took Over the World. For more information, click here. 

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Discussing I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger. For more information, click here.

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Janet Horvath will present The Cello Still Sings, in conversation with John Kaul. For more information, click here. 

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Rhonda Fleming Hayes will launch Garden for Life. For more information, click here. 

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Discussing I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger. For more information, click here.

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Thomas Kent West will launch City of Iron and Ivy, in conversation with Gabi Burton. For more information, click here. 

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Steve Fox will present These Are My People. Tickets $10. For more information, click here. 

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Ifrah F. Ahmed will present Soomaaliya: A Cookbook, in conversation with Jamal Hashi. For more information, click here. 

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Final installment of the 2025-2026 Mentor Series readings featuring Mentors Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Taiyon Coleman, as well as Fellows Rae Rowe and Tina Gross. For more information, click here. 

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Zachariah Jones will present The Chasing Shadows Trilogy. For more information, click here. 

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Monthly showcase of works-in-progress by MFA in Creative Writing students at the University of Minnesota. For more information, click here. 

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Loretta Ellsworth and Anika Fajardo will discuss their latest novels, The Jilted Countess (Ellsworth) and The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore (Fajardo). For more information, click here. 

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Ramona Ausubel discusses her book Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading From the Blank Page to the Last Page. In conversation with Claire Wahmanholm. For more information and registration, click here.

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Anthony Ceballos, Heid E Erdrich, and Sherman Funmaker will read from their work. For more information, click here. 

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Featuring: Valérie Déus, Margaret Hasse, Nour Eldin Hussein, Gloria Muñoz, Emily Oliver, Sana Wazwaz, and Sara Dovre Wudali. For more information, click here. 

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Pen Pals presents Ariel Lawhon, who will discuss her latest novel, The Frozen River. Ticket prices $35 - $59. For more information, click here. 

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