If the new version of the American Dream involves making a decent living doing something you really love, then Stiteler can check that one off her life list.

In “Augie’s Secrets," Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie’s straight off the bus from North Dakota and when celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited.

In her latest book, “Vacationland,” a complex array of characters across time and place share one thing in common: time spent at Camp Naledi.

Between 1854 and 1929, as many as 250,000 children were herded onto trains, shipped across the country, and given away to anyone who would take them.

"I wanted to write something that inspires the same sort of intensity I felt when I was eleven years old and reading my own favorite books," says William Alexander.

One night in 1978, Elayne Galleries in St. Louis Park was robbed. The thieves made off with seven paintings by Norman Rockwell, as well a slightly damaged Renoir.

This weekend, when Williams comes to the Twin Cities to read from her latest book, “When Women Were Birds,” she will hear “Wild Mercy” performed live.

In a new collection of essays, Minnesota writers Martha Stortz and Patricia Hampl are in the company of Tobias Wolff, Ann Patchett and others.

Slavery in the North wasn’t tied to agriculture or industry, as in the South. “They typically worked as house servants,” said Bachman.