MIKE ALBERTI: Discusses “Some People Let You Down,” nine stories about life in small-town America in a debut collection. 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, via Zoom presented by Next Chapter Booksellers. Go to: nextchapterbooksellers.com.
V.P. BIDANIA: Minnesotan introduces “Astrid & Apollo and the Happy New Year,” newest in her early chapter book series featuring sister and brother Astrid Gao Nou and Apollo Nou Kou, who have adventures at the Hmong New Year celebration when they are separated from their parents. The book, illustrated by Dara Lashia Lee, includes a simple dictionary including words such as pong dow, meaning lost or to become lost, as well as facts about the Hmong. 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, presented in Ramsey County Library’s First Chapter Fridays series, via Facebook live.
BRIDGES READING: With Roy Guzman, whose latest poetry collection is “Catrachos”; Danika Stegeman LeMay, with her debut collection “Pilot”; Claudia Hampson Daly, award-winning independent radio producer; Richard Terrell, Minnesota Book Award-winner, author of “What Falls Away is Always: Poems & Conversations”; and Janna Knittel, University of Minnesota teaching specialist, storyteller and literary curator, whose new poetry collection is “Fish & Wildlife.” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, via Zoom, presented by Next Chapter Booksellers. Go to: nextchapterbooksellers.com.
EASTER/DITTBERNER-JAX: Minnesota poets read from their work. Mary Moore Easter’s new collection is “From the Flutes of Our Bones,” opening the door on Black worlds; Norita Dittberner-Jax’s is “Now I Live Among Old Trees,” about coming to grips with the death of her husband from ALS and her own diagnosis of cancer. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17; presented by SubText Books via Crowdcast. Free, but registration required at subtextbooks.com/events/2020/11/17/mary-moore-easter-norita-dittberner-jax/.
WILLIAM SOUNDER: Discusses his widely-praised new biography of John Steinbeck, “Mad at the World,” in conversation with Daniel Slager, publisher/CEO of Milkweed Editions. Presented by Subtext Books via Crowdcast. Free, but registration required at subtextbooks.com/events/2020/11/19/william-souder-for-mad-at-the-world-with-daniel-slager.
ERIC UTNE: Minnesota founder of Utne Reader discusses his memoir “Far Out Man:Tales of Life in the Counterculture.” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, via Zoom presented by Next Chapter Booksellers. Go to: nextchapterbooksellers.com.
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