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Amy Goetzman

Amy Goetzman writes about books, authors, libraries and the Twin Cities literary scene. She is a freelance writer and editor who has covered the arts for MinnPost, the Rake, City Pages, Star Tribune and Minnesota Monthly, as well as culture topics for Salon.com, The New York Times and Babble.com.

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'Voices of Hope' documents breast-cancer survival

By Amy Goetzman | 05/10/10
This weekend, 50,000 people walked for a cure for breast cancer, in a phenomenal annual show of solidarity and hope.
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Family farm is the stuff of nonfiction

By Amy Goetzman | 05/10/10
Today our food increasingly comes from overseas, and the farm in largely gone from popular culture. But Minnesota writers like Gayle Marty and Will Weaver want to make sure we remember.
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In defense of libraries, both home and public

By Amy Goetzman | 05/07/10
Two library-related stories especially caught my eye this week, one good, one bad.
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Erin Hart’s 'False Mermaid' makes Top 10 mystery list

By Amy Goetzman | 04/30/10
Booklist has announced its top 10 mystery books for the year ending approximately right now, which means this roundup contains some 2009 and some 2010 titles. It makes no sense to me, but forgive them, because the task of winnowing the massive year
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Fear not your state parks, says Chris Niskanen in 'Prairie, Lake, Forest'

By Amy Goetzman | 04/29/10
Ice went out early and the fishing opening is soon upon us. Nights are already warm enough to sleep in a tent, and the forests are full of wildflowers and birdsong.
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'I'm New at Being Old': a charming art book on aging

By Amy Goetzman | 04/26/10
About halfway through, Lucy Rose Fischer’s "I’m New at Being Old" (Temuna Press) was starting to look like the scariest picture book I’d ever read.
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2010 Minnesota Book Awards go home

By Amy Goetzman | 04/19/10
This winter, judges pored over 250 books written by Minnesotans, and on Saturday night, the writers of nine of those books got to take home a Minnesota Book Award.
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‘Molly the Owl’ e-book illustrator hails from Shoreview

By Amy Goetzman | 04/14/10
The Internet’s most riveting reality show is about to become an e-book, and a Minnesota-raised artist is working on the illustrations.
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Erdrich, Moyers talk of writing, religion and more

By Amy Goetzman | 04/13/10
On Friday’s episode of “Bill Moyers Journal,” Moyers says he lost a few nights’ sleep staying up to finish Louise Erdrich’s new book, "Shadow Tag" (same thing happened to me, actually).
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Short-fiction contests for short attention spans

By Amy Goetzman | 04/02/10
MNArtists.org has put out the call for entrants for the 2010 miniStories flash fiction competition.