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Rain Taxi Spring Fling! at the Granada Theater

Celebrate books, bands, and more at BANneD BOOKS, this year’s Rain Taxi fundraiser! All are welcome as we rock and read in style.

You’ll be treated to riveting musical performances by The Muatas, Zak Sally, and Willie Wisely, and spellbinding literary readings by Dessa, Klecko, and special guest Carolyn Kuebler. Read more about the artists below; books and music will be available for purchase and signing.

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May 2024 Events from Magers & Quinn

Daniel Khalastchi and Joanna Klink in conversation

In-Store Event: Thursday, 5/2 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Daniel Khalastchi boldly strides across a landscape of smoldering fires, unmarked boxes, and pictures of senators in airplane bathrooms. Exhilarating and innovative, The Story of Your Obstinate Survival collapses genre and upends narrative convention with dazzling wordplay and thrilling imagery.

Joanna Klink’s fifth book, The Nightfields, begins with poems of personal loss—a tree uprooted by a windstorm, a friendship ended after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, bewilderment at the accumulation of losses, and the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out.

Thu, May 2, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Daniel Khalastchi and Joanna Klink in conversation

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Khenpo Sherab Sangpo launches The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism in conversation with Roger R. Jackson

In-Store Event: Tuesday, 5/7 @ 7pm - Registration Required

The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism is a profoundly clear presentation of Tibetan Buddhism, covering core topics like awareness, meditation, bodhichitta, rebirth, and enlightenment.

Tue, Mar 26, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo launches The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Limited Space Remaining: Jeneva Rose presents Home is Where the Bodies Are in conversation with Abby Jimenez

Off-Site Event: Wednesday, 5/8 @ 7pm at The Granada Theater - Tickets Required

After their mother's passing, three estranged siblings return to their family home in Wisconsin to settle the estate. Reunited in their childhood home, the siblings begin to sort through family memories, including their collection of home movies. They stumble across a seemingly innocuous video of the woods that line the property...until their father stumbles out of the darkness, covered in blood.Haunted by this chilling image and full of questions, each sibling has a different opinion about what they should do next: Reveal the truth, cover it up, or see if they can put the pieces together themselves?

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Michelle S. Phelps presents The Minneapolis Reckoning in conversation with Cinnamon Pelly

In-Store Event: Thursday, 5/9 @ 7pm - Registration Required

In The Minneapolis Reckoning, Michelle Phelps describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition. Her account of the city’s struggles over what constitutes real accountability, justice, and safety offers a vivid picture of the possibilities and limits of challenging police power today.

Thu, May 9, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Michelle S. Phelps presents The Minneapolis Reckoning with Cinnamon Pelly

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Christi Furnas presents Crazy Like a Fox in conversation with Lynn Von Sien

In-Store Event: Monday, 5/13 @ 7pm - Registration Required

This autobiographically-inspired graphic novel explores mental health and schizophrenia in a surprising and emotionally honest story with a fantastical cast of animal characters.

Mon, May 13, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Christi Furnas presents Crazy Like a Fox in conversation with Lynn Von Sien

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Gretchen Anthony launches Tired Ladies Take a Stand in conversation with Kathleen West

In-Store Event: Tuesday, 5/14 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Heartfelt, emotionally perceptive and sharply funny, Tired Ladies Take a Stand celebrates the bonds of female friendship and women reclaiming their autonomy in a world that expects them to do it all.

Signed pre-orders available!

Tue, May 14, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Gretchen Anthony launches Tired Ladies Take a Stand with Kathleen West

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Rachel Khong presents Real Americans in conversation with Kawai Strong Washburn

In-Store Event: Thursday, 5/16 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Real Americans is a sweeping, multigenerational story about a family trying to shape their own destiny. In immersive, moving prose, Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, asking—what does it mean to be American? And are we destined, or made?

Thu, May 16, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Rachel Khong presents Real Americans with Kawai Strong Washburn

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Ellen Clegg presents What Works in Community News in conversation with Jaida Grey Eagle

In-Store Event: Monday, 5/20 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Local news is essential to democracy. Meaningful participation in civic life is impossible without it. However, local news is in crisis. According to one widely cited study, some 2,500 newspapers have closed over the last generation. And it is often marginalized communities of color who have been left without the day-to-day journalism they need to govern themselves in a democracy.

Veteran journalists Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy cut through the pessimism surrounding this issue, showing readers that new, innovative journalism models are popping up across the country to fill news deserts and empower communities.

Mon, May 20, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Ellen Clegg presents What Works in Community News

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Christina Lauren presents The Paradise Problem in conversation with Ellie Palmer

Off-Site Event: Tuesday, 5/21 @ 7pm at The Granada Theater - Tickets Required

Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed.

West has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.

Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents: his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.

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Julian Randall presents The Dead Don't Need Reminding in conversation with torrin a. greathouse and Danez Smith

In-Store Event: Wednesday, 5/22 @ 7pm - Registration Required

The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather.

Alternatively wry, lyrical, and heartfelt, Randall transforms pop culture moments into deeply personal explorations of grief, family, and the American way. He envisions his fight to stay alive through a striking medley of media ranging from Into the Spiderverse and Jordan Peele movies to BoJack Horseman and the music of Odd Future. Pulsing with life, sharp, and wickedly funny, The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is Randall’s journey to get his ghost story back.

Wed, May 22, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Julian Randall presents The Dead Don't Need Reminding

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Matt Goldman presents Still Waters

In-Store Event: Thursday, 5/23 @ 7pm - Registration Required

If you’re reading this email, I am dead. I know this will sound strange, but someone has been trying to kill me. Liv and Gabe Ahlstrom are estranged siblings who haven’t seen each other in years, but that’s about to change when they receive a rare call from their older brother’s wife. “Mack is dead,” she says. “He died of a seizure.” Five minutes after they hang up, Liv and Gabe each receive a scheduled email from their dead brother, claiming that he was murdered.

Thu, May 23, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Matt Goldman presents Still Waters

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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Alan Grostephan presents The Banana Wars in conversation with Frank Bures

In-Store Event: Tuesday, 5/28 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Starkly drawn from the true history of Urabá and this period of conflict, including the unseen role of US corporate interests, celebrated author Alan Grostephan’s latest is an incandescent historical novel for fans of Jesmyn Ward, Roberto Bolaño, and Fernanda Melchor.

Tue, May 28, 2024 7:00 PM CST

Alan Grostephan presents The Banana Wars in conversation with Frank Bures

Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis

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April Gibson presents The Span of a Small Forever in conversation with Erin Sharkey

In-Store Event: Wednesday, 5/29 @ 7pm - Registration Required

With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice.