Chris Hewitt
Interim Books Editor at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Executive Editor at Empire
Star Tribune books writer, floaty pen enthusiast, re-read every Agatha Christie mystery in order and wrote about them at https://t.co/yQOPJQEJnu
Articles
-
3 days ago |
startribune.com | Chris Hewitt
To give an idea of the scope and difficulty of Jack El-Hai's new book: He usually does three or four revisions. This one was more like 10 or 12. "It was a hard book to write," said El-Hai of "Face in the Mirror," which covers nearly 20 years - from 2006, when a Wyoming man named Andy Sandness shot himself in the head and immediately regretted it, to today, when he's a Minnesota resident and the recipient (in 2016) of the first-ever face transplant at Mayo Clinic.
-
4 days ago |
thedailynewsonline.com | Chris Hewitt |Kate DiCamillo
I am 100% certain Kate DiCamillo knows that owls eat rats and that’s one of the reasons I love her second “Orris and Timble” book, about an owl and a rat who are friends.
-
4 days ago |
thelcn.com | Chris Hewitt |Kate DiCamillo
I am 100% certain Kate DiCamillo knows that owls eat rats and that’s one of the reasons I love her second “Orris and Timble” book, about an owl and a rat who are friends.
-
4 days ago |
startribune.com | Chris Hewitt
We'll never know about all the paintings destroyed or stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Were there forgotten Vermeers? Trashed Picassos? But what we do know is that a woman named Rose Valland saved tens of thousands of works. Valland is the real-life heroine of "The Art Spy," a curator at Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in the 1940s. Unpaid because she was a woman, Villand nevertheless treasured the priceless works in her care.
-
5 days ago |
yoursun.com | Chris Hewitt
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services developmentStore and/or access information on a deviceYou can choose how your personal data is used.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →Coverage map
X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 3K
- Tweets
- 11K
- DMs Open
- No
A Minnesota native, her Scamp and "The Allure of Elsewhere," from @thefriends MN Book Award winner Karen Babine: https://t.co/zqtdfpxtPL
Maybe you saw "Fun Home" @TheaterLatteDa ? Its protagonist, Alison Bechdel, has a new graphic novel
Review: ‘Fun Home’ creator Alison Bechdel looks back to her Minneapolis days with ‘Spent’ https://t.co/6MflZ7zvwM
Upcoming books, brand new in the @StribGoingOut book room, include a mystery from MN's @AuthorJoeHart as well as novels from Lily King and John Irving (I'm a person who takes every chance to rhapsodize about "A Prayer for Owen Meany" -- you, too?)
It’s @HewittSTrib in the book room! Happy Tuesday! https://t.co/lgQ9pgS1X0