Literary calendar for week of May 4

TAMARA DEAN Introduces her essay collection Shelter and Storm A Home in the Driftless about her experiences living in the area of Wisconsin that was not touched by glaciers leaving a landscape of steep hills and deeply carved valleys forests and streams Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press The author and her husband bought an old farm and built their house of earthen blocks Not sure of how she wished to farm Dean meanwhile kept a huge garden researching the best tactics to use the land while confronting prairie fires floods and tornadoes and the ravages of weather change The couples aim was to find avenues to a more sustainable way to live Her book is filled with adventure hard work history of farms and farming and perpetually consideration for what she and particular of the neighboring farmers can do for the land including hard choices such as whether to destroy a beaver dam that helps the circumstances but hurts farmers or letting blown-down trees rot in place to provide animal habitat instead of selling to loggers In conversation with Jeannine Ouellette p m Tuesday Next Chapter Booksellers S Snelling Ave St Paul HERMAN DIAZ Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust is hosted by Friends of the Hennepin County Library s Pen Pals series p m Monday a m Tuesday Hopkins Center for the Arts In-person programs sold out virtual only Go to supporthclib org Jason Reynolds Courtesy of the Guthrie Theater CLARK ELLIS Crime writers Tracy Clark and David Ellis both from the Chicago area association up for Totally Criminal Cocktail Hour Ellis whose latest book is The Best Lies is an Edgar-winning author of crime novels and eight books co-written with bestselling author James Patterson The Best Lies features a diagnosed pathological liar who s also a crusading attorney Clark is a two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award winner whose latest book Echo concludes her Det Harriet Foster series Hosted by Valley Bookseller of Stillwater p m Wednesday Lowell Inn Second St N Stillwater Go to valleybookseller com JASON REYNOLDS An Afternoon With Jason Reynolds features the award-winning author of popular novels for young people in lively conversation with Minnesota writer Shannon Gibney joined by South High ninth-graders Boisey Corvah and Asher Parks Free p m Thursday Guthrie Theater S Second St Mpls Presented by More Than a Single Story and Hennepin County Library Related Articles Readers and writers Surprising facts about St Paul s parks in an adult coloring book How a surprising Shakespeare discovery was uncovered in a letter used as scrap paper Literary pick for week of May Book Review From incels to trad wives values critic probes st century backlash against feminism Why Chronology of Water author Lidia Yuknavitch revisits the past in Reading the Waves