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June 2024 Events from Magers & Quinn

Bruce Richardson and Raymond Wilson present Brothers In-Store Event: Monday, 6/3 @ 7pm - Registration Required Brothers, by Raymond Wilson and Bruce Richardson is a story of why a black man and a white man became brothers 50 years after they served in Vietnam. They grew up close together and went to similar schools, yet they had never met until they were over 70. They had dreams, served in the Army together, were both shot down in helicopters, and lost some of their best friends in combat, but they had to wait to meet. Ray and Bruce needed to find an answer to the world's struggle. They did. See if you agree.

Mon, Jun 3, 2024 7:00 PM CST Bruce Richardson & Raymond Wilson present Brothers Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Patrick Nathan launches The Future Was Color In-Store Event: Tuesday, 6/4 @ 7pm - Registration Required Spanning from sun-drenched Los Angeles to the hidden corners of working-class New York to a virtuosic climax in the Las Vegas desert, The Future Was Color is an immaculately written exploration of postwar American decadence, reinventing the self through art, and the psychosis that lingers in a world that’s seen the bomb.

Tue, Jun 4, 2024 7:00 PM CST Patrick Nathan launches The Future Was Color Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Carvell Wallace presents Another Word for Love in conversation with Junauda Petrus In-Store Event: Wednesday, 6/5 @ 7pm - Registration Required With courage, vulnerability, and a remarkable expansiveness of spirit—not to mention a thrilling, and unrivaled, storytelling verve—Another Word for Love makes an irresistible case for life, healing, the fullness of our humanity, and, of course, love. It could be called a theory of life itself—a theory of being that will leave you open to the wonder of the world.

Wed, Jun 5, 2024 7:00 PM CST Carvell Wallace presents Another Word for Love with Junauda Petrus Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Uche Okonkwo presents A Kind of Madness in conversation with Lesley Nneka Arimah In-Store Event: Thursday, 6/6 @ 7pm - Registration Required In ten vivid, evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo’s A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings, and more, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and inviting us all to consider the question: why is it that the people and places we hold closest are so often the ones that drive us to madness?

Thu, Jun 6, 2024 7:00 PM CST Uche Okonkwo presents A Kind of Madness with Lesley Nneka Arimah Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Poetry Night with Sandra Sidman Larson and Joyce Sutphen In-Store Event: Monday, 6/10 @ 7pm - Registration Required And Now What Shall We Do? A Memoir in Poetry spans Sandra Sidman Larson's long life of political and social justice activity, encompassing the concerns of war and peace, poverty and wealth, racism and bigotry, health care and social justice, the environment, and the need to save our planet, along with love in all its forms. As the title implies, the book is written in an evolving genre of writing which includes essays, prose, narrative, and lyric poetry. --- That Other Life is a lyric narrative about how relationships fail and succeed—or rather, about how the narrator fares on the changeable course of love and domestic commerce. Most of the poems in Joyce Sutphen’s twelfth book are sonnets, and each sonnet provides a glimpse of a swiftly moving life. In the same carefully crafted language as she uses to describe an oat binder, Sutphen surveys marriage and love.

Mon, Jun 10, 2024 7:00 PM CST Poetry Night with Sandra Sidman Larson and Joyce Sutphen Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Allan Evans and Steve Berg in conversation In-Store Event: Wednesday, 6/12 @ 7pm - Registration Required Killer Smile: Det. Cade Dawkins is summoned to a mysterious meeting at the University of Minnesota to learn that a professor has uncovered a site on the dark web made by serial killers who share their exploits. After Cade stopped a serial killer in the Twin Cities and nearly lost the two women closest to him, a new challenge is issued: come to Minnesota and outsmart the detective who stopped the Blonde Killer. Come and Kill. With two killers on the site terrifying the public, the media turning on him, and the governor threatening to fire him, Cade is running out of time. --- Lost Colony: The Hennepin Island Murders begins with the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm — and continues thirty years later, and four thousand miles away, with the gruesome murder of an activist priest on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis.

Wed, Jun 12, 2024 7:00 PM CST Allan Evans and Steve Berg in conversation Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Colin Hamilton presents The Discarded In-Store Event: Thursday, 6/13 @ 7pm - Registration Required With Borgesian panache, The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. Hamilton’s nuanced collection asks a seemingly simple question: In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books, what do we preserve and what do we discard?

Thu, Jun 13, 2024 7:00 PM CST Colin Hamilton presents The Discarded Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Allison Pugh presents The Last Human Job in conversation with Dr. Mani Mokalla In-Store Event: Monday, 6/17 @ 7pm - Registration Required With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving. Vividly illustrating how connective labor enriches the lives of individuals and binds our communities together, The Last Human Job is a compelling argument for us to recognize, value, and protect humane work in an increasingly automated and disconnected world.

Mon, Jun 17, 2024 7:00 PM CST Allison Pugh presents The Last Human Job with Dr. Mani Mokalla Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Robert Samuels presents His Name Is George Floyd In-Store Event: Tuesday, 6/18 @ 7pm - Registration Required His Name Is George Floyd tells the story of a beloved figure from Houston’s housing projects as he faced the stifling systemic pressures that come with being a Black man in America. Placing his narrative within the context of the country’s enduring legacy of institutional racism, this deeply reported account examines Floyd’s family roots in slavery and sharecropping, the segregation of his schools, the overpolicing of his community amid a wave of mass incarceration, and the callous disregard toward his struggle with addiction—putting today’s inequality into uniquely human terms. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with Floyd’s closest friends and family, his elementary school teachers and varsity coaches, civil rights icons, and those in the highest seats of political power, Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa offer a poignant and moving exploration of George Floyd’s America, revealing how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.

Tue, Jun 18, 2024 7:00 PM CST Robert Samuels presents His Name is George Floyd Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Kim Uy presents Chasing Dreams, Becoming a Doctor in conversation with Julie Vang In-Store Event: Thursday, 6/20 @ 7pm - Registration Required Kim Uy and her parents waited 15 years in Cambodia before emigrating to the United States. She had to learn English in high school, ignore those who said “medicine is not for you,” and she had to stay strong to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. And once Kim met her goals in America, she returned to Cambodia to care for those who needed her most.

Thu, Jun 20, 2024 7:00 PM CST Kim Uy presents Chasing Dreams, Becoming a Doctor with Julie Vang Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Essie Chambers presents Swift River in conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld In-Store Event: Monday, 6/24 @ 7pm - Registration Required Swift River is about a family struggling with generational trauma and a town’s hidden history; it is the story of a funny, weird, unforgettable girl trying to take a first step toward a life that will ultimately lead her away from the only home she's ever known.

Mon, Jun 24, 2024 7:00 PM CST Essie Chambers presents Swift River in conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Tasha Coryell launches Love Letters to a Serial Killer in conversation with Joshua Moehling In-Store Event: Tuesday, 6/25 @ 7pm - Registration Required Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that's on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It's the perfect outlet for her pent-up frustration and rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first.  Until William writes back.

Tue, Jun 25, 2024 7:00 PM CST Tasha Coryell launches Love Letters to a Serial Killer with Joshua Moehling Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Brea Baker presents Rooted in conversation with Erin Sharkey In-Store Event: Wednesday, 6/26 @ 7pm - Registration Required A testament to the Black farmers who dreamed of feeding, housing, and tending to their communities, Rooted bears witness to their commitment to freedom and reciprocal care for the land. By returning equity to a dispossessed people, we can heal both the land and our nation’s soul.

Wed, Jun 26, 2024 7:00 PM CST Brea Baker presents Rooted in conversation with Erin Sharkey Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis Tickets

Emily Nussbaum presents Cue the Sun! in conversation with Kara Nesvig Off-Site Event: Thursday, 6/27 @ 7pm @ The Amsterdam Bar & Grill - Tickets $35, includes copy of Cue the Sun! What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds--and why won't they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker, the queer roots of Bravo, the dark truth behind The Apprentice, and more. A shrewd observer who adores television, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that, for better or worse, made America what it is today.

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Gabrielle Zevin presents Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow in conversation with Kara Nesvig Off-Site Event: Thursday, 6/27 @ 7pm - Tickets $27 - $37 New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Zevin, whose books have been translated into forty languages, comes to The Parkway to celebrate her tenth novel, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

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