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Patrick Coleman

Roseville, MN
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Posted on 07/27/11 at 11:23 am in response to BCC is taking a brief hiatus

Oh man! This is worse than the State shutdown!

Posted on 06/17/11 at 10:55 am in response to Twelve great books for Father's Day

Best father's day book ever? "Canoeing With The Cree" by Eric Sevareid [still in print from the Minnesota Historical Society Press]

Posted on 05/31/11 at 12:00 pm in response to Midwestern horrors: The illustrations of Stephen Gammell and the stories of Donald Wandrei

Thank you for reminding readers about this significant Minnesota author. Even a young Stephen King knew to make a pilgrimage to the St. Paul home of Howard and Donald Wandrei. These brothers may have been the most eccentric Minnesotans ever and the Minnesota Historical Society Library has eight boxes of their literary manuscripts and correspondence. You have to come in and see it!

Posted on 05/24/11 at 10:54 am in response to The top 10 books of all time

Really? 125 authors queried and James Joyce's "Ulysses" isn't on this list? So much for today’s writers.

Posted on 12/23/10 at 12:30 pm in response to Minnesotans and the past: 'Gatsby' and the Coen brothers' 'True Grit'

Sorry to bust you Max but one of my enumerable pet peeves is that Fitzgerald never wrote a book titled "The Beautiful and the Damned"! It is titled "The Beautiful and Damned" which has an entirely different meaning. Thanks for letting me vent. Happy Holidays.

Posted on 04/06/10 at 01:58 pm in response to New highway signs -- Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 -- start going up tonight

I love the thought that Hubert is number 2 once again.

Posted on 09/04/08 at 12:19 pm in response to Back to the future: State's history holds key to elusive 'post-partisan' politics

See this website for thoughts along the same line.

Posted on 07/14/08 at 11:17 am in response to Lin Enger's frozen hamlet hits home

Amy, This reminds me of what the great critic of Minnesota literature, James Grey, wrote in 1937.

“No doubt the conviction is strong in the true believer’s heart that when “the Heavenly Muse” finds herself in Minnesota, she wearily gets out her make-up kit and prepares for a lugubrious session celebrating the sorrows of the soil and of the soul. The costume assigned to the Minnesota Muse, in the regionalist handbook, is a decent, though shabby, Mother Hubbard. She sings exclusively of...

Posted on 07/03/08 at 03:49 pm in response to Part 2: 150 Minnesota moments we'd just as soon forget

Thanks for the fun idea MinnPost although too many of the sports moments seem trivial to me. How 'bout the 1890 Sea Wing disaster on Lake Pepin? Almost 100 people died when an excursion boat flipped? I would also nominate two dirty political campaigns as moments to forget: the red baiting and anti-Semitic 1938 gubernatorial race between Elmer Benson and Harold Stassen and the phony charge in 1962 by Rolvaag against Elmer L. Andersen involving work being done on Highway 35.

Posted on 04/28/08 at 11:35 am in response to MNArtists.org: Land of 10,000 lit magazines?

Thank you for the quick survey of literary publishing, Stephanie! The only thing that I would add is that there is a long proud tradition of these periodicals in Minnesota. In fact, the first such magazine appeared within a year of statehood! It was called "The Frontier Monthly". Perhaps the best literary serial of the 19th century was "The Literary Northwest" whose "editors recognize no aristocracy, save that of letters." William C. Edgar's "The Bellman", 1906 -1913, set the bar at its...