Are sugar beets the new acai? Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent ...

On the back cover of “Beartooth,” a blurb from novelist Junot Diaz compares it to “A Simple Plan,” which is both high praise and a very dangerous game to be playing. “A Simple Plan,” which became a ...

You could say novelist Josh Moehling is hot right now. William Kent Krueger pretty much does say that in a blurb on the cover of Moehling’s new “A Long Time Gone,” his third book featuring small-town ...

At the Tomahawk Room in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, you can get a pizza, a locally brewed hard cider or, possibly, the idea for your next book. A few years ago, novelist Nickolas Butler, who lives in a ...