Deborah Copperud

1 week ago | sites.lsa.umich.edu | Deborah Copperud

“This was the one boarding school story I’d never told,” teases Lee Fiora in the opening paragraphs of “Lost but Not Forgotten,” the last of a dozen stories in Curtis Sittenfeld’s new short story collection Show Don’t Tell. It’s a juicy opener, one that prompted me to arrange an interview with Sittenfeld over Zoom, ostensibly to ask her about the collection and her favorite Minneapolis bookstores. At least, that’s what I told Sittenfeld’s Random House marketing team.

3 weeks ago | racketmn.com | Deborah Copperud

Joan Griffith picks and strums a quick samba rhythm on her guitar strings, slows the tempo, then plays “Só Danço Samba” for an audience of two dozen women gathered at Walker West Music Academy on a Saturday afternoon in March. Along with pianist Mary Louise Knutson, drummer Jendeen Forsberg, and vocalist Lucia Newell, Griffith teaches the group a brief history of Brazilian music, tips on improvisation, and how to “bossa up” any jazz standard.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Deborah Copperud

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1 month ago | chireviewofbooks.com | Deborah Copperud

The ideal soundtrack for Greg Hewett’s debut novel, No Names, would start with a Schumann piano concerto, followed by a Black Flag anthem, manually mixed onto a dusty cassette tape with a handwritten label. The punk tracks represent Mike and Pete, two young guitarists who form an infatuated friendship in the mid-1970s on the working-class side of a fictional city situated near the Rust Belt, on the migratory path of tundra swans.

1 month ago | deborahcopperud.substack.com | Deborah Copperud

On Saturday, March 29, the State Central Committee of Minnesota’s DFL Party will meet to elect new State Party leadership. Now that long-serving, vaingloriously moderate Ken Martin has secured the top dog spot as Chair of the Democratic National Committee, the DFL’s State Party Chair position is an open field for the first time since 2011. Thanks for reading Deborah Copperud Volunteers! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. But is it an open field? Not really.