Fear And Loving In South Minneapolis

Author : Jim Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517906054
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis written by Jim Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for more than thirty years Two or three times a week, as a columnist, hustling freelance writer, and genuinely curious reporter, Jim Walsh would hang out in a coffee shop or a bar, or wander in a club or on a side street, and invariably a story would unfold--one more chapter in the story of Minneapolis, the city that was his home and his beat for more than thirty years. Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis tells that story, collecting the encounters and adventures and lives that make a city hum--and make South Minneapolis what it is. Here is a man who drives around Minneapolis in a van that sports a neon sign and keeps a running tally of the soldiers killed in Iraq. Here is another, haunted by the woman he fell in love with, and lost, many years ago at the Minnesota Music Café on St. Paul's East Side. Here are strangers on a cold night on the corner of Forty-sixth and Nicollet, finding comfort in each other's company in the wake of the shootings in Paris. And here are Walsh's own memories catching up with him: the woman who joined him in representing "junior royalty" for the Minneapolis Aquatennial when they were both seven years old; the lost friend, Soul Asylum's Karl Mueller, recalled while sitting on his memorial bench at Walsh's go-to refuge, the Rose Gardens near Lake Harriet. These everyday interactions, ordinary people, and quiet moments in Jim Walsh's writing create an extraordinary picture of a city's life. James Joyce famously bragged that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be rebuilt in its entirety from his written works. The Minneapolis that Jim Walsh maps is more a matter of heart, of urban life built on human connections, than of streets intersecting and literal landmarks: it is that lived city, documented in measures large and small, that his book brings so vividly to mind, drafting a blueprint of a community's soul and inviting a reader into the boundless, enduring experience of Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis.

Author : Jim Walsh
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452965277
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis written by Jim Walsh and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for more than thirty years Two or three times a week, as a columnist, hustling freelance writer, and genuinely curious reporter, Jim Walsh would hang out in a coffee shop or a bar, or wander in a club or on a side street, and invariably a story would unfold—one more chapter in the story of Minneapolis, the city that was his home and his beat for more than thirty years. Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis tells that story, collecting the encounters and adventures and lives that make a city hum—and make South Minneapolis what it is. Here is a man who drives around Minneapolis in a van that sports a neon sign and keeps a running tally of the soldiers killed in Iraq. Here is another, haunted by the woman he fell in love with, and lost, many years ago at the Minnesota Music Café on St. Paul’s East Side. Here are strangers on a cold night on the corner of Forty-sixth and Nicollet, finding comfort in each other’s company in the wake of the shootings in Paris. And here are Walsh’s own memories catching up with him: the woman who joined him in representing “junior royalty” for the Minneapolis Aquatennial when they were both seven years old; the lost friend, Soul Asylum’s Karl Mueller, recalled while sitting on his memorial bench at Walsh’s go-to refuge, the Rose Gardens near Lake Harriet. These everyday interactions, ordinary people, and quiet moments in Jim Walsh’s writing create an extraordinary picture of a city’s life. James Joyce famously bragged that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be rebuilt in its entirety from his written works. The Minneapolis that Jim Walsh maps is more a matter of heart, of urban life built on human connections, than of streets intersecting and literal landmarks: it is that lived city, documented in measures large and small, that his book brings so vividly to mind, drafting a blueprint of a community’s soul and inviting a reader into the boundless, enduring experience of Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis.

Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253021162
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two written by Philip A. Greasley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Author : Sherry Quan Lee
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
ISBN 13 : 1615992332
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Imagined written by Sherry Quan Lee and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿLove Imaginedÿis an American woman?s unique struggle for identity. "Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota life set within the backdrop of racial segregation, the Cold War, the sexual revolution while navigating it all through the lens of her multi-layered identities. A true demonstration of the power of an intersectional perspective." --Kandace Creel Falc¢n, Ph.D., Director of Women?s and Gender Studies, Minnesota State University, Moorhead "Love Imagined: this fascinating, delightful, important book. This imagining love, this longing for love. This poverty of No Love, this persistent racism, sexism, classism, ageism. The pain these evils cause the soul...This is an important document of a mixed-race contemporary woman, a memoir about her family lineages back to slavery, back to China, back to early Minneapolis, and about the struggle of finding herself in all of these." --Sharon Doubiago, author ofÿMy Father?s Love "When I read Sherry?s story [Love Imagined], I recognized feelings and meanings that mirrored mine. I felt a sense of release, an exhale, and I knew I could be understood by her in a way that some of my family and friends are unable to grasp, through no fault of their own. It?s the Mixed experience. Sherry Lee?s voice, her story, will no doubt touch and heal many who read it." --Lola Osunkoya, MA Founder of Neither/Both LLC, Mixed-Race Community Building and Counseling Learn more at www.SherryQuanLee.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com BIO002000 Biography & Autobiography: Cultural Heritage SOC028000 Social Science: Women's Studies - General SOC043000 Social Science: Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies

Author : John Turnipseed
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN 13 : 1424549515
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloodline written by John Turnipseed and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn from an idyllic life with a loving, extended family in 1960’s Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized and empty cupboards. A.C. Turnipseed’s alcoholism and womanizing started a chain reaction of poverty, violence, addiction and despair that nearly destroyed three generations. From lost and frightened little boy to gang leader, drug dealer and pimp to one of the nation’s most respected pioneers of community restoration, John Turnipseed’s story of transformation and restoration is told with unflinching honesty and contagious hope.

Author : Geoff Herbach
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402256302
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stupid Fast written by Geoff Herbach and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.

Author : Shannon Gibney
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN 13 : 146778981X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book See No Color written by Shannon Gibney and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transracial adoption is never oversimplified, airbrushed, or sentimentalized, but instead, it's portrayed with bracing honesty as the messy institution it is: rearranging families, blending cultural and biological DNA, loss and joy. An exceptionally accomplished debut."—Kirkus, starred review For as long as she can remember, sixteen-year-old Alex Kirtridge has known two things about herself: She's a stellar baseball player. She's adopted. Alex has had a comfortable childhood in Madison, Wisconsin. Despite some teasing, being a biracial girl in a wealthy white family hasn't been that big a deal. What mattered was that she was a star on the diamond, where her father, a former Major Leaguer, coached her hard and counted on her to make him proud. But now, things are changing: she meets Reggie, the first black guy who's wanted to get to know her; she discovers the letters from her biological father that her adoptive parents have kept from her; and her changing body starts to affect her game. Suddenly, Alex begins to question who she really is. She's always dreamed of playing pro baseball just like her father, but can she really do it? Does she truly fit in with her white family? Who were her biological parents? What does it mean to be black? If she's going to find answers, Alex has to come to terms with her adoption, her race, and the dreams she thought would always guide her. • Winner of the Minnesota Book Award • A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen book of the Year • A Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year

Author : James Eli Shiffer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950199
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King of Skid Row written by James Eli Shiffer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their souls. Sociology researchers posing as vagrants studied them. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood’s last days through photographs and film of his clientele. The King of Skid Row follows Johnny Rex into this vanished world that once thrived in the heart of Minneapolis. Drawing on hours of interviews conducted in the three years before Bacich’s death in 2012, James Eli Shiffer brings to life the eccentric characters and strange events of an American skid row. Supplemented with archival and newspaper research and his own photographs, Bacich’s stories re-create the violent, alcohol-soaked history of a city best known for its clean, progressive self-image. His life captures the seamy, richly colorful side of the city swept away by a massive urban renewal project in the early 1960s and gives us, in a glimpse of those bygone days, one of Minneapolis’s most intriguing figures—spinning some of its most enduring and enthralling tales.

Author : Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minnesota Horticulturist written by Minnesota State Horticultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chy Anne Autumn Osborn
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489746846
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Ashes of Love written by Chy Anne Autumn Osborn and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of a Nez Perce mother and a white father in the second half of the twentieth century, Phoenix Stargazer has always struggled to find his place in two worlds. Called a half-breed by many, Phoenix is struggling to find his place in humankind when he falls in love with a white woman who sees past his mixed heritage and his anger to offer him her love and her God. Aerielle Buchanan, having delved past the wall Phoenix has built, has fallen in love. Yet without warning, Phoenix is torn from her life, and the two are left to live their own lives apart from each other. What will happen in 14 years when God reunites them? Bound by love and faith, but torn apart by time and circumstance, will their reunion be enough to bring them back together? Are they truly destined for each other, or was what they had only an illusion from their youth?