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July 2024 Events from Magers & Quinn
O. O. Sangoyomi presents Masquerade in conversation with Gabi Burton
In-Store Event: Monday, 7/8 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Loosely based on the myth of Persephone, O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade takes you on a journey of epic power struggles and political intrigue which turn an entire region on its head.
Mon, Jul 8, 2024 7:00 PM CST
O. O. Sangoyomi presents Masquerade in conversation with Gabi Burton
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Sarah C. Johns presents The Sirens of Soleil City in conversation with Gretchen Anthony
In-Store Event: Tuesday, 7/9 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Over the course of a month in an apartment complex filled with feisty, funny, strong-willed women in their seventies, four women who make up an uneasy family will realize that in life, and motherhood, there isn’t good and bad. There’s only trying to get it right.
Tue, Jul 9, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Sarah C. Johns presents The Sirens of Soleil City with Gretchen Anthony
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Self Patronage: Steve Hoffman & Mary Jo Hoffman in conversation
In-Store Event: Wednesday, 7/10 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Celebrate creativity, partnership, and ritual as spouses Steve Hoffman and Mary Jo Hoffman celebrate the publication of their new books! Their separate labors of love resulted in a debut book for each of them, both coming out in 2024.

Join us for a talk on the creative process, finding time for your art, and artistic practice with these Minnesota authors.
Wed, Jul 10, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Self-Patronage: Steve and Mary Jo Hoffman in conversation
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Kevin Barrry presents The Heart in Winter in conversation with Julie Schumacher
In-Store Event: Thursday, 7/11 @ 7pm - Registration Required

In this love story for the ages—lyrical, profane and propulsive—Kevin Barry has once again demonstrated himself to be a master stylist, an unrivalled humourist, and a true poet of the human heart.
Thu, Jul 11, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Kevin Barry presents The Heart in Winter with Julie Schumacher
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Taffy Brodesser-Akner presents Long Island Compromise
Off-Site Event: Tuesday, 7/16 @ 7pm - Shir Tikvah Minneapolis -
Tickets $8 admission-only/$35 admission + book

From the bestselling author of Fleishman is in Trouble, Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family's history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives' tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
Tue, Jul 16, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Taffy Brodesser-Akner presents Long Island Compromise
Shir Tikvah Synagogue, Minneapolis
Holly Wilson presents Kittentits
In-Store Event: Wednesday, 7/17 @ 7pm - Registration Required

It’s 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike–riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly’s adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty mouths, so naturally Molly is the moth to Jeanie’s scuzzy flame. A surrealist and bold take on the American coming-of-age novel, Holly Wilson’s debut is about the interstices of loss, grief, and friendship.
Wed, Jul 17, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Holly Wilson presents Kittentits
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Asha Thanki presents A Thousand Times Before in conversation with V. V. Ganeshananthan
In-Store Event: Thursday, 7/18 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Asha Thanki has crafted a rare, remarkable debut in A Thousand Times Before. Featuring sublime prose, an achingly beautiful love story, and wholly original world building, this saga of family and motherhood is impossible to put down, or to forget.
Thu, Jul 18, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Asha Thanki presents A Thousand Times Before with V. V. Ganeshananthan
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Brent Love presents Leap: A Memoir
In-Store Event: Tuesday, 6/18 @ 7pm - Registration Required

In a small Texas town, Brent comes out to his parents, and on that night his place in the world cracks wide open. Unmoored from his family but unwilling to give up on his dream, Brent enters the Peace Corps with the incredible task of navigating an unfamiliar land, a new language, and a new identity as a gay man in post-Soviet Armenia.
Mon, Jul 22, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Brent Love present Leap
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
John J. Waters presents River City One
In-Store Event: Wednesday, 7/24 @ 7pm - Registration Required

This event has was originally scheduled for April 11, but will now take place on JULY 24, 2024 @ 7pm!

The tale of a man and the memory that haunts him, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war, he has become a man on the edge, quietly raging against the people he must now work for and live among—the kind of people incapable of understanding the terror he felt in combat and the guilt he carries in his heart.When he meets Ruth, a beautiful, famous singer traveling through the city, John discovers a new passion for living. But as the lies pile up, he takes more and more foolish risks to hold onto his family and the newfound love that threatens them both. Moving and lyrical, River City One is the story of a man discovering that the hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself.
Thu, Apr 11, 2024 7:00 PM CST
John J. Waters presents River City One
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Translation Book Club - Violets
In-Store Event: Thursday, 7/25 @ 6pm - RSVPs Appreciated, Not Required

Join us for the July meeting of the Magers & Quinn Translation Book Club.
This month, we'll be discussing Kyung-Sook Shin's Violets, tranlsated by Anton Hur!
Thu, Jul 25, 2024 6:00 PM CST
Translation Book Club - Violets
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
Carl Elliott and Julie Schumacher in conversation
In-Store Event: Tuesday, 7/30 @ 7pm - Registration Required

Two University of Minnesota professors discuss their newly-released books.

The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.
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The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap by chronicling the beleaguered Professor Fitger as he chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow.

Through a sea of troubles—personal, institutional, and international—the gimlet-eyed, acid-tongued Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for all concerned, revealing much about the essential need for human connection and the sometimes surprising places in which it is found.
Tue, Jul 30, 2024 7:00 PM CST
Carl Elliott and Julie Schumacher in conversation
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis


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