Formerly called Flight of the Snowbirds and Flight of the Lasers, the race was renamed Flight of Newport in 2020. This year, about 70 boats participated in the event.
Review: The Youngest Boy, by Jim Heynen FICTION: Jim Heynen s collection of short-short stories offers flashes of the beauty and solitude of a rural childhood.
By Kathleen Rooney Special to the Star Tribune April 9, 2021 8:38am Text size Copy shortlink:
In a literary landscape that still privileges the rather grandiose notion of the Great American Novel, to describe a piece of writing as a sketch or a vignette or a slice of life can come across as damning with faint praise. But as fans of flash fiction short-short stories usually defined as 1,000 or fewer words have long appreciated, compression packs a pithy punch.
Put on your sunglasses, folks. It s a shiny new year out there.
Say what you will about 2020, it was a great year for books. How s 2021 looking? Here are some titles we are looking forward to in the first four months. The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, by K. Woodman- Maynard (Candlewick, Jan. 5)
Woodman-Maynard, a Minnesota graphic designer, has woven excerpts from F. Scott Fitzgerald s famous novel throughout mystical and haunting watercolors. That Old Country Music, by Kevin Barry (Doubleday, Jan. 12)
Irish writer Barry, winner of the Dublin Literary Award and the Goldsmiths Prize, returns with his third collection of stories that blend humor and pathos, beauty and sorrow.