Literary calendar for week of April 27

DAVE EGGERS Signs copies of his new book The Eyes The Impossible the story of a dog living in an urban park winner of the Newbery Medal - p m May Magers Quinn Hennepin Ave S Mpls ALISON ESPACH Discusses her widely praised genre-straddling novel The Wedding People in MELSA s Club Book reading series Virtual streaming event p m Wednesday No registration necessary Go to facebook com ClubBook PETER GEYE Reads from and discusses his new novel A Lesser Light p m Monday University of St Thomas O Shaughnessy Training Center Summit Ave St Paul p m Tuesday Excelsior Bay Books Excelsior a m Saturday Roseville Inhabitants Library N Hamline Ave Roseville These programs are free and open to the society ONE BOOK ONE MINNESOTA Diane Wilson Sun Yung Shin Shannon Gibney and John Coy discuss their writing in the anthology Where We Come From this year s title in the statewide book club that brings together people of all ages presented by Friends of the St Paul Community Library acting as Minnesota Center for the Book Free virtual event a m Tuesday Registration required Go to thefriends org POETS Minnesotans Donna Isaac Margaret Hasse Rosetta Peters and Amanda Bailey read from their latest collections p m May Eat My Words th Ave N Mpls Marcie Rendon Courtesy of the author MARCIE RENDON Reads from Where They Last Saw Her winner of the Minnesota Book Award in genre fiction Free p m Monday East Side Freedom Library Greenbrier St St Paul BILL THORNESS Seattle-based journalist discusses All Roads Lead to Rome Searching for the End of My Father s War Inspired by letters written by his father to his mother Thorness began a quest to rediscover his father traveling to World War II battlefields and to Rome where he stood on a bridge reflecting on the loss his father must have felt in not making it to the end of the campaign to liberate the Eternal City The narrative moves between reimagined battle scenes and present-day travels In conversation with Juliet Patterson p m Thursday Magers Quinn Hennepin Ave S Mpls Related Articles St Thomas hosting Emily Dickinson readings to celebrate poetry month fiction and nonfiction books inspired by the Vietnam War Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions Kao Kalia Yang makes history at Minnesota Book Awards Book Review Hope Dies Last visits visionaries fighting global warming