Dec 12, 2022 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
Review by Michaela Corniea “Red November, black November. Bleak November, black and red; Hallowed month of Labor’s martyrs, Labor’s heroes, Labor’s dead.” -excerpt from Ralph Chaplin’s song “November,” inspired by the Haymarket Affair, quoted in Red November, Black...Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Vanessa East How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, edited by Sherry Quan Lee, is a collection of essays from the pens of twenty-four Minnesota-connected writers of color, all exploring what it is to put one’s heart on the...Aug 23, 2022 | Blog, Book Geek Shelf Talkers
A review by Kathrine Grimm One of the goals of the East Side Freedom Library is to place the past and the present in conversation with each other. As a summer collaborator at ESFL, I was drawn to a book which does precisely that. In The Second Coming of the KKK: The...Jul 28, 2022 | Blog, Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Naci Konar-Steenberg I love reading books that were written a long time ago. Books like The Great Gatsby, 1984 and Flatland, even though their subject matters are all over the place, grab my interest for the same reason: they possess a character far enough...Mar 19, 2022 | Blog, Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Maxwell Yang During the winter of 2022, I had the opportunity to work with the East Side Freedom Library as a means of giving back to my community. The East Side Freedom Library (ESFL) is a place filled with history. It’s a gathering of intricate details and a...Jan 28, 2022 | Blog, Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Mary Turck In We Are Meant to Rise, Minnesota indigenous writers and writers of color reflect on and react to the year 2020: the year that began the COVID pandemic, a year ripped apart by the brutal police murder of George Floyd, a year of...