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Literary pick for Aug. 11
![Novels are not instructive, but they are illustrative, and if you keep reading them, you’ll have a better understanding that there is no one way to live. Novels are not instructive, but they are illustrative, and if you keep reading them, you’ll have a better understanding that there is no one way to live.](https://www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-88583115.jpg?w=140)
Column: Why don’t men read novels?
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Minnesota poets receive grants to lead public poetry programs
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‘Sharks in the Time of Saviors’ is next for Friends of St. Paul Public Library virtual book club
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Readers and writers: A rom-com after mastectomy? It works.
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Literary calendar for week of Aug. 4
![Author Chris Nashawaty looks at these films and more in new book, 'The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982.' Author Chris Nashawaty looks at these films and more in new book, 'The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982.'](https://www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/OCR-L-BOOK-FUTURENOW-0804-03.jpg?w=124)
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‘Blade Runner,’ ‘The Thing,’ ‘E.T.’ and the legacy of 1982’s summer sci-fi movies
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Readers and writers: Longtime sci-fi writer to be honored as convention returns to Twin Cities
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