Yangsze Choo (James Cham / Macmillan Publishers)
YANGSZE CHOO: Author of historical fantasy including “The Ghost Bride,” made into a Netflix drama, discusses her latest novel about shapeshifters, “The Fox Wife.” In-person, presented by Club Book. Free. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Scott County Library, Savage. Go to clubbook.org/portfolio-posts/yangsze-choo.
RAMONA EMERSON: New Mexico-based author introduces “Exposure,” a follow-up to her bestselling debut “Shutter,” featuring a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. In the new thriller Rita grapples with a serial killer and the ghosts he leaves behind. Emerson is a Dine (Navajo) writer, filmmaker and photographer. She and her husband, producer Kelly Byars, have a production company, Reel Indian Pictures. In conversation with Minnesota mystery writer Marcie Rendon, who calls Emerson’s book “Intense, gripping, moving and so gorgeously written … A stunner!” 6 p.m. Thursday, Once Upon a Crime, 604 W. 26th St., Mpls.
PERCIVAL EVERETT: Pen Pals reading series presents Pulitzer Prize finalist for “Telephone” introducing his new novel “James,” a reimagined version of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the viewpoint of Jim, the boy’s enslaved friend. In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg, it is a finalist for the National Book Award.. 7:30 p.m. Monday, 11 a.m. Tuesday; in-person tickets sold out. For virtual tickets go to supporthclib.org/percival-everett.
MOLLY BETH GRIFFIN: Minnesotan celebrates the launch of her new picture book “Just Us,” providing comfort and warmth at this time of changing seasons. 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Red Balloon Bookshop, 891 Grand Ave., St. Paul.
KATRINA MONROE: Minnesota author of “They Drown Our Daughters” introduces “Through the Midnight Door,” a thriller about two sisters and an old house. In conversation with Tasha Coryell. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls. Registration required at magersandquinn.com/events.
Ramona Emerson (Courtesy of Soho Press)
POETRY NIGHT: Magers & Quinn welcomes Athena Kildegaard, Heid E. Erdrich and Lesley Wheeler. 7 p.m. Thursday, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls. Registration required at magersandquinn.com/events.
JAYNE ANN PHILLIPS: Discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Night Watch,” set in a backroads asylum in the bleak near-apocalyptic aftermath of the Civil War. Free. Virtual event in partnership with Club Book reading series and Red Balloon Bookshop. Go to clubbook.org/portfolio-posts/jayne-anne-phllips.
What else is going on
There’s still time to get tickets for Friends of the St. Paul Public Library’s Opus & Olives fundraiser next Sunday, Oct. 13, at St. Paul RiverCentre. 5 p.m. cocktail reception, 6:15 dinner and presentations from authors Kirsten Miller (“Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books”), Wanda M. Morris (“What You Leave Behind”), Tommy Tomlinson (“Dogland”) and David Wroblewski (“Familiaris”). Individual tickets start at $150. Go to thefriends.org/opus-and-olives-gala.
It’s five and counting with Danny Klecko and the New York Times Metropolitan Diary feature. The St. Paul baker/poet’s “Float,” about his conversation with a kid eating ice cream in Central Park, was published Sept. 29, the fifth piece Klecko has had published in the Times. Maybe they should put him on the staff. Needless to say, Klecko is not being quiet about it.
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