Poets & Writers Theater

In this Magers & Quinn Booksellers event, Carson Faust reads from his debut novel, If the Dead Belong Here (Viking, 2025), and discusses the origins and power of the book’s unconventional structure and the surge in popularity of Indigenous horror literature in a conversation with Mona Susan Power. Faust’s novel is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“In a lot of ways, this popular culture is the water that I swim in. I can’t escape it.” In this Magers & Quinn Booksellers event, Alice Bolin reads an essay about Star Trek from her latest collection, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse (Mariner Books, 2025), and discusses technology, cults, and feminism with author Sally Franson.

In this Magers & Quinn Booksellers event in Minneapolis, Carvell Wallace reads from his debut memoir, Another Word for Love (MCD, 2024), and talks about finding strength in his communities and ancestors, and the transformative power of memory in a conversation with Junauda Petrus.

In this virtual reading hosted by Magers & Quinn Booksellers, authors Lilly Dancyger, Gina Frangello, and Jeannine Ouellette read from their memoirs and discuss the similarities between their writing processes. Dancyger’s Negative Space (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021) and Frangello’s Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason (Counterpoint Press, 2021) are featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.