
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
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1 day ago |
startribune.com | Chris Hewitt
Caroline Fraser has pulled a major switcheroo with her new book, "Murderland." Fraser's last book, " Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder," won a Pulitzer Prize for its portrait of the folksy writer and her daughter, whom Fraser demonstrated was heavily involved in her mom's writing. But, whatever else he may have done, Pa Ingalls never ripped off anyone's face or assaulted them with a crowbar.
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2 days ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Chris Hewitt
First things first: Susan Choi's "Flashlight," her first novel since National Book Award-winning " Trust Exercise," is almost nothing like "Trust Exercise." There's no reason it should be, of course, but readers who were introduced to her work by that blockbuster (she had published four novels before it) may expect the terse, tricky writer of "Trust Exercise," in which we think we're reading one sort of book about an inspiring teacher and his students at a performing arts high school, only to...
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2 days ago |
thederrick.com | Chris Hewitt
First things first: Susan Choi’s “Flashlight,” her first novel since National Book Award-winning “ Trust Exercise,” is almost nothing like “Trust Exercise.” There’s no reason it should be, of course, but readers who were introduced to her work by that blockbuster (she had published four novels before it) may expect the terse, tricky writer of “Trust Exercise,” in which we think we’re reading one sort of book about an inspiring teacher and his students at a performing arts high school, only to...
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2 days ago |
sacbee.com | Chris Hewitt
First things first: Susan Choi's "Flashlight," her first novel since National Book Award-winning "Trust Exercise," is almost nothing like "Trust Exercise." There's no reason it should be, of course, but readers who were introduced to her work by that blockbuster (she had published four novels before it) may expect the terse, tricky writer of "Trust Exercise," in which we think we're reading one sort of book about an inspiring teacher and his students at a performing arts high school, only to...
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2 days ago |
dailygazette.com | Chris Hewitt
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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