Literary calendar for week of May 11

Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press WILLA HAMMITT BROWN Presents Gentlemen of the Woods Manhood Myth and the American Lumberjack p m Monday Magers Quinn Hennepin Ave S Mpls RICKEY FAYNE Tennessee-based writer discusses The Devil Three Times about a Black family visited by the devil In conversation with Lissa Jones co-presented by Black Territory Reads p m Wednesday Magers Quinn Hennepin Ave S Mpls HAWA HASSAN Discusses Setting a Place For Us Recipes and Stories of Displacement Resilience and Neighborhood from Eight Countries Impacted by War p m Thursday Magers Quinn Hennepin Ave S Mpls Katrina Monroe Courtesy of the author Kathleen West Courtesy photo MINNESOTA MYSTERY NIGHT Two Minneapolis women who write mysteries that investigate relationships and delve into what it means to be a mother are in the spotlight at this monthly series Katrina Monroe is a novelist mom private investigator and snark-slinger extraordinaire Her largest part contemporary books They Drown Our Daughters Graveyard of Lost Children and Through the Midnight Door combine mystery horror and suspense to overlay the fragilities of family relationships Kathleen West is also the author of three previous books that deal with the intricacies of human relations Her latest Making Friends Can Be Murder will be distributed in June It s about a woman who has the same name as another woman determined dead p m May Lucky s Pub Mendota cover charge Reservations can be made at buytickets at minnesotamysterynight CHARLIE SELLARS Discusses What We Can Do A Weather Optimist s Guide to Sustainable Living p m Tuesday Magers Quinn Hennepin Ave S Mpls CHRISTOPHER VALEN Launches Shadow Falls th in his John Santana mystery series Noon- p m Saturday Once Upon a Crime W th St Mpls Related Articles Readers and writers Exploring up north from flowers to lighthouses Literary pick for week of May Anonymous Washington County Library benefactor comes through again Pen Pals literary series announces guests for next season Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts