Deborah Copperud

1 week 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.

4 weeks 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.

2 months ago | racketmn.com | Deborah Copperud

Natural disasters scare me more than ever, now that the new Trump administration plans to juice fossil fuel extraction, overflow atmospheric carbon, and trade any prayer at reversing climate change for a fleeting, methane-odored domestic power blitz. Lucky for me, the city of Minneapolis offers a free disaster preparedness training course called Ready Camp, which I hope can help me stop imagining my tornadic demise and, instead, make a list of go-bag supplies.