Mary Ann Grossmann

“A Season on the Drink” tells a fictional account of the St. Anthony Residence rec league softball club that won a 1986 championship against all odds.

Today we’ve got nonfiction about the four corners of Minnesota and a child’s-eye memoir of life in the foreign service, as well as a horrifying novel about an attack on the U.S.

National Banned Books Week begins Sunday.

The DJ’s nightmare began when a package of 10 pounds of raw meat was left at the station with her name on it.

On Tuesday, David Hakensen will introduce “Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover,” the first complete biography of one of the state’s most beloved nature writers.

Jumping genres was a gamble that has paid off for author Rebecca Kanner of St. Paul, who put some of her life into her new novel.

Here’s an eclectic roundup: one of the fall season’s most anticipated thrillers, a novel about a man who might be Bob Dylan’s son and food meets the Beat writers.

Readers and writers: Crime-fighting Monkeewrench gang returns

Thrillers and crime top the list of anticipated autumn books by Minnesota authors and publishers.

Poet Danny Klecko teams with Patricia Hampl to talk about their experiences in the Big Apple and whatever else they find interesting on Sept. 7 at Next Chapter Booksellers in St. Paul.