"The ultimate (literary) tour guide to the neighborhoods and wild places, history and politics, culture and cuisine, music and myths of the Twin Cities" (Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding).In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America's literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities are...

Tales of ambition, terror, rivalry, adventure, endurance, friendship, and love on the waters of the Mississippi River and beyond.In this collection of thrilling stories, award-winning writer Frank Bures tells stories as varied as the waters and weather and rhythms of a canoe trip. Bures recounts the terror of two kayakers who barely escaped from the 2011 Pagami Creek Fire in the Boundary Waters. He investigates the talk of two young campers who got a supernatural s...