Carla Hagen and Susan Thurston joined Alan Miller for the November program. Both are award-winning writers, and both have won the Midwest Independent Publisher Award in different years. Carla's "Muskeg" is set in the 1930s and is localized. Susan's epic, "Sister of Grendel" tackled the ancient tale of Beowulf with a new twist. Both discussed their careers and are working on new novels.
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In a sprawling warehouse space in St. Paul that houses a boxing gym, a pilates studio and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu center, there's an exercise class for older adults that offers something besides improving strength, flexibility and balance.
It's the chance to create something beautiful.
Read MoreCarla Hagen presents Muskeg: A Novel, in conversation with Erin Hart (author of Haunted Ground). Recorded on October 25, 2022 at Magers & Quinn Booksellers.
Read MoreAward-winning author Carla Hagen chose Lake of the Woods County as the setting for her first book, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, released ten years ago.
And, it is where she returned to launch the book’s sequel, Muskeg, earlier this month.
Read More(ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA) Novelist Carla J. Hagen will launch her latest novel, Muskeg, to the Twin Cities community at the Target Performance Hall of Open Book. Muskeg is the follow-up to her award-winning novel, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane.
Read MoreNovelist Carla Hagen returns to Baudette to launch her newest book, Muskeg, to her hometown community at the Lake of the Woods Historical Society. Muskeg is a follow-up to her award-winning novel Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, which was a fictional look at the real-life 1930s resettlement of Faunce, Minnesota.
Read Morebeneath mosquito netting
in a house in the forest of date palms and mango trees
the windows open to the air
Reprinted from the March-April 2012 issue of Stepping Up, the membership magazine of AFSCME Council 5 Minnesota
Carla Hagen has been a public defender, a prosecutor, and a senior attorney for Hennepin County. But that experience is important for her next novel.
Read MoreHave we got a case for you, counselor. See, there’s this company; three shifts, so there’s always people around. But our boy don‘t know that. Part of the place is under construction; he grabs a ladder and goes up on the roof. He takes 5 big buckets of roofing glue and throws them down this hole to the second floor, just to watch how pretty it looks spreading all over the floor, I guess.
Read MoreThe morning of the day after I arrive, my mother wakes me up and takes me to see the wild purplish-blue irises that grow in the wet places in the woods. She’s wearing formless green work pants and a cream shirt, the same kind of uniform she’s worn since I was a child.
Read MoreI woke up at 2:00 this morning and smelled cigarette smoke. I sat up in bed. No one has smoked in this house for at least three years, and the grass outside was too wet for a butt to last more than a few seconds. But I smelled it and knew someone was there. I went downstairs and checked the doors, the windows, the burglar alarm.
Read MoreGaby and I walk the sidewalks of this suburban city, once a small town surrounded by farms, now a bedroom community of Chicago, bristling with strip malls, Starbucks, McMansions and a gigantic Lifetime Fitness. And yet, something remains of the rural landscape: large stands of mature oaks and maples, creeks that feed the DuPage River…
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