Chris Hewitt

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Chris Hewitt

In her "Meet Me at the Crossroads" Megan Giddings thanks people you'd expect a writer to acknowledge, including readers and University of Minnesota English department colleagues V.V. Ganeshananthan and Julie Schumacher. There's also at least one you might not expect: an Uber driver. That driver, who drove the creative writing and literature professor to a New Orleans bar, claimed to be a psychic. She told Giddings personal things that left her shaken.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Chris Hewitt

If "This Dog Will Change Your Life" were a dog breed, it would be a border collie: sweet, fun to be around, a little hyper. The book comes from Elias Weiss Friedman, who bills himself as the Dogist on social media, where he has 7.6 million Instagram followers. Friedman photographs dogs he meets and interviews their owners about the dogs' personalities, eliciting gems like this about a Great Pyrenees named George Elliot: "She had to interview with the board of our building before we moved in.

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Chris Hewitt

In her “Meet Me at the Crossroads” Megan Giddings thanks people you’d expect a writer to acknowledge, including readers and University of Minnesota English department colleagues V.V. Ganeshananthan and Julie Schumacher. There’s also at least one you might not expect: an Uber driver. That driver, who drove the creative writing and literature professor to a New Orleans bar, claimed to be a psychic. She told Giddings personal things that left her shaken.

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Chris Hewitt

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1 week ago | startribune.com | Chris Hewitt

By Chris Hewitt Minnesota Star Tribune CEO and Publisher Steve Grove 's new book is about 300 pages, but there's a lot going on in them. "How I Found Myself in the Midwest" is partly about Minnesota's challenges but also a memoir that encompasses the Northfield native and his wife Mary's struggles with infertility, making new friends after 40, repairing his relationship with his dad and reconnecting to his faith.