
February 2025
Youssef Rakha presents The Dissenters
This event is co-hosted by Mizna! Certain as I’ve never been of anything in the world that you have a right or a duty to know, that you absolutely must know, I sail through the mouth of that river into the sea of her life. Amna, Nimo, Mouna—these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her death in 2015, her son, Nour, ascends to the attic of their house where…
Find out more »Allen Eskens presents The Quiet Librarian
After the murder of her best friend, a librarian’s search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this sweeping novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from award-winning writer Allen Eskens. Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her,…
Find out more »Roger R. Jackson presents Saraha
The life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years. Saraha, “the Archer,” was a mysterious but influential tenth-century Indian Buddhist tantric adept who expressed his spiritual realization in mystic songs (dohās) that are enlightening, shocking, and confounding by turns. Saraha’s poetic verses made the esoteric ideas and practices of Vajrayāna accessible to a wide audience on the Indian subcontinent and served as a basis for the exposition, in Tibet,…
Find out more »Roger R. Jackson presents Saraha
The life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years. Saraha, “the Archer,” was a mysterious but influential tenth-century Indian Buddhist tantric adept who expressed his spiritual realization in mystic songs (dohās) that are enlightening, shocking, and confounding by turns. Saraha’s poetic verses made the esoteric ideas and practices of Vajrayāna accessible to a wide audience on the Indian subcontinent and served as a basis for the exposition, in Tibet,…
Find out more »The Mill City Reading Series
Magers & Quinn is proud to welcome back The Mill City Reading Series, a monthly showcase of works-in-progress by MFA in Creative Writing students at the University of Minnesota. The showcase is free and open to the public. Speakers and genres vary every month. Come support these emerging writers on Sunday, February 23. Other series dates are Sunday, March 23 and Sunday, April 27.
Find out more »Lisa Stanton and Karen Casey in conversation
The key to recovery comes from within. For many people, medicine, treatments, and therapy can only do so much during the aftermath of addiction. That is why Dr. Lisa Stanton shares how reconnecting to yourself and your relationship with faith can produce the best results. 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery is a self-improvement book that combines psychology with spirituality, exploring all the incredible truths that your journey with God can reveal. Featuring eye-opening facts about prayers, forgiveness, and…
Find out more »Translation Book Club – Celebration
Join us for the February meeting of the Magers & Quinn Translation Book Club! This month, we'll be discussing Damir Karakaš's Celebration, translated from Croation by Ellen Elias-Bursac. Order the book here: https://www.magersandquinn.com/product/Celebration/26245943
Find out more »March 2025
Toni Halleen launches The Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan is a psychological thriller about a recently divorced dad who, having just lost his young son in a drowning accident, risks his academic career and what remains of his personal life by attempting to help a mysterious boy he finds stranded in a hail storm. The book explores family relationships, forgiveness, and what might motivate us to help a stranger in need. Sociology professor Matthew Larkin is barely holding on. After the death of his toddler son,…
Find out more »Allison Epstein presents Fagin the Thief
A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London's most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue. Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob's whole world is his open-minded mother, Leah. But Jacob's prospects are forever altered…
Find out more »Allison Epstein presents Fagin the Thief
A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London's most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue. Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob's whole world is his open-minded mother, Leah. But Jacob's prospects are forever altered…
Find out more »Leslie Jamison presents Splinters
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a blazing, unputdownable memoir (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the piercing, intimate story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. Leslie Jamison is among our most beloved contemporary voices, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. In Splinters, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of her…
Find out more »Greg Gaut launches The War at Home
Exploring Minnesota's history from the beginning of the European war in 1914 through the 1920 U.S. election provides a unique vantage point from which to assess the war's impact on American society. Americans went to war in 1917 not only against Germany but also against each other. The controversial decision to send an army to France came during a contentious time when farmers and workers challenged the wealthy, African Americans struggled against Jim Crow, women campaigned for suffrage, and millions…
Find out more »Shubha Sunder presents Optional Practical Training
An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post-9/11 America Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a degree in physics. Her student visa grants her an extra twelve months in the country for work experience--a period known as Optional Practical Training--so she takes a position as a math…
Find out more »Niall Williams presents Time of the Child
From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha. Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love - and passed up another offer…
Find out more »The Mill City Reading Series
Magers & Quinn is proud to welcome back The Mill City Reading Series, a monthly showcase of works-in-progress by MFA in Creative Writing students at the University of Minnesota. The showcase is free and open to the public. Speakers and genres vary every month. Come support these emerging writers on Sunday, March 23. Other series dates are Sunday, February 23 and Sunday, April 27.
Find out more »Wendy A. Horwitz presents Milkweed and Honey Cake
In Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments, Wendy Horwitz explores how ritual can exalt ordinary moments and frame the extraordinary. With observations from nature, religion, and literature, she tells stories about celebration, loss, change, and the best way to open a pomegranate. Lyrical and funny, thought-provoking and deeply moving, this book is at once a meditation on our desire for meaning and the story of a woman’s lifelong efforts to create it. Wendy A. Horwitz is the…
Find out more »Todd Almond presents Slow Train Coming
The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic shutdown of 2020-22. Despite historic, seemingly insurmountable setbacks of four openings, Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson's musical Girl from the North Country became a critical Broadway hit. Opening on Broadway in the middle of an unprecedented moment, Slow Train Coming is a book about pressing on in the face of extreme adversity. Actor and playwright Todd Almond's…
Find out more »Translation Book Club – Inseparable
Join us for the March meeting of the Magers & Quinn Translation Book Club! This month, we'll be discussing Simone de Beauvoir's Inseparable, translated from French by Sandra Smith, who will be joining us as a special guest! Order the book here: https://www.magersandquinn.com/product/Inseparable/23319814
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