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Santa's elves have been working extra hard this year to provide toys that are weird, wild and world events-appropriate. The holidays are all about ho-ho-ho-ing, so spread some happy cheer with a b ...
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The holidays and toys go together like egg and nog. For kids, toys are tools that help them to do their job: play. Adults use toys to relieve stress and take their minds off the pressures of daily ...
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Three new novels from the Land of 10,000 Lakes show Minnesota to be a literary inspiration.
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Minnesota has an image as clean as the first November snow and, thanks to the Coen Brothers, a somewhat bent reputation as well. But Minnesotans have always known that they're better than other Am ...
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Laura Pedersen's award-winning book seems to be anything but.
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Laura Pedersen has assembled quite a biography. She has a finance degree from NYU's Stern School of Business and was the youngest person to gain a seat on the American Stock Exchange. President Cl ...
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The McSweeney's literary boys club has its first girl writer in Amy Fusselman.
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It's impossible to discuss Amy Fusselman's book tour without revealing the end of her book. So, bearing that in mind, let's start at the beginning.A year ago in March, Dave Eggers' upstart McSween ...
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Freed from academic conclaves and cafe covens, poetry returns to the open.
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People who have never been to a poetry reading usually imagine such gatherings in one of two ways: 1) A dusty university auditorium half-filled with nodding bluehairs and beard-stroking, ponytaile ...
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Freed from academic conclaves and cafe covens, poetry returns to the open.
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People who have never been to a poetry reading usually imagine such gatherings in one of two ways: 1) A dusty university auditorium half-filled with nodding bluehairs and beard-stroking, ponytaile ...
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