TAMARA DEAN: Introduces her essay collection “Shelter and Storm: A Home in the Driftless,” about her experiences living in the area of Wisconsin that was not touched by glaciers, leaving a landscape of steep hills and deeply carved valleys, forests and streams.
(Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press)
The author and her husband bought an old farm and built their house of earthen blocks. Not sure of how she wanted to farm, Dean meanwhile kept a huge garden, researching the best ways to use the land while confronting prairie fires, floods and tornadoes, and the ravages of climate change.
The couples’ aim was to find ways to a more sustainable way to live. Her book is filled with adventure, hard work, history of farms and farming, and always consideration for what she and some of the neighboring farmers can do for the land, including hard choices such as whether to destroy a beaver dam that helps the environment but hurts farmers, or letting blown-down trees rot in place to provide animal habitat instead of selling to loggers.
In conversation with Jeannine Ouellette. 6 p.m. Tuesday, Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 S. Snelling Ave., St. Paul.
HERMAN DIAZ: Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Trust” is hosted by Friends of the Hennepin County Library’s Pen Pals series. 7:30 p.m. Monday, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Hopkins Center for the Arts. In-person programs sold out; virtual only. Go to supporthclib.org.
Jason Reynolds (Courtesy of the Guthrie Theater)
CLARK/ELLIS: Crime writers Tracy Clark and David Ellis, both from the Chicago area, team up for Totally Criminal Cocktail Hour. Ellis, whose latest book is “The Best Lies,” is an Edgar-winning author of 10 crime novels and eight books co-written with bestselling author James Patterson. “The Best Lies” features a diagnosed pathological liar who’s also a crusading attorney. Clark is a two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award winner whose latest book, “Echo,” concludes her Det. Harriet Foster series. Hosted by Valley Bookseller of Stillwater. 5 p.m. Wednesday, Lowell Inn, 102 Second St. N., Stillwater. $10. Go to valleybookseller.com.
JASON REYNOLDS: An Afternoon With Jason Reynolds features the award-winning author of popular novels for young people in lively conversation with Minnesota writer Shannon Gibney joined by South High ninth-graders Boisey Corvah and Asher Parks. Free. 1 p.m. Thursday, Guthrie Theater, 818 S. Second St., Mpls. Presented by More Than a Single Story and Hennepin County Library.
Related Articles
Readers and writers: Surprising facts about St. Paul’s parks in an adult coloring book
How a surprising Shakespeare discovery was found in a letter used as scrap paper
Literary pick for week of May 4
Book Review: From incels to trad wives, culture critic probes 21st century backlash against feminism
Why ‘Chronology of Water’ author Lidia Yuknavitch revisits the past in ‘Reading the Waves’
Leave a Reply