Literary calendar for week of July 13

FRANK BURES Minnesotan discusses Pushing the River his collection of real-life stories about joys and dangers of canoeing part of Minnesota History Center s North Star Voices series Free p m Saturday Minnesota History Center W Kellogg Blvd St Paul TASHA CORYELL Hosts the launch of her new thriller Matchmaking for Psychopaths in which matchmaker Lexie discovers at her th birthday party that her best friend and her fiance are in love Then Lexie gets involved with two of her clients both of whom are psychopaths When Lexie starts receiving strange and bloody packages she has to figure out who is trying to orchestrate her downfall and whether this is relevant to her estranged parents and their criminal history In conversation with award-winning author Kathleen West Coryell who lives in St Paul is the author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer which got rave reviews Free p m Tuesday Magers Quinn Hennepin Ave S Mpls What else is going on It isn t too early to mark your calendars for Oct when Rick Atkinson Jade Chang Jason Mott and Nita Prose will be guest readers at Friends of the St Paul Citizens Library s annual Opus Olives benefit dinner at St Paul RiverCentre Prize-winning historian Atkinson is author of The Fate of The Day which covers the middle years of the American Revolution Chang s debut novel What a Time to Be Alive is about a broke unemployed woman in California who becomes a self-help guru In Mott s novel People Like Us two Black writers try to find peace in a world riven by gun violence Prose bestselling author of The Maid introduces The Maid s Secret in which Molly Gray special-events manager at a hotel discovers during a TV appraisal show that she has a priceless treasure that vanishes from the hotel in a sensational heist Look for more about these authors and their books closer to the event You can find ticket information at thefriends org opus What s a Silent Book Club It s the newest expansion of Next Chapter Booksellers monthly book club offerings Unlike our other clubs this one will not be structured around a shared read or conversation the store declared online Every second Thursday of the month from to p m we ll be staying open late putting on soft music and inviting everyone to read with us in the bookstore Each meeting will end with the chance for attendees to share a little about what they re reading with the group and browse the shelves Space is limited so readers are advised to bring their own cushions beanbags blankets The store is at S Snelling Ave St Paul where the next Silent Book Club meeting will be Aug Related Articles Readers and writers A terrific novel and strong memoirs all from Minnesota authors Arsenic in books Exhibit shows that specific pages can kill How Desi Arnaz at last gets his due in The Man Who Invented Television Readers and writers Two books take clear-eyed view of vitality care system s flaws Literary calendar for week of July