Literary Calendar for the Week of June 23 – Twin Cities

TRACY CHEVALIER: The bestselling author brings her new novel, “The Glassmaker,” to Talk of the Stacks, presented by Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Chevalier, who loves Venice and wanted to get to know the city better, discovered that glass has been made for centuries on Murano, an island just off the coast of Venice where pearls were long the only glass items women could make. So she focuses on a fictional woman and her family of glassmakers. The story moves from Renaissance Italy to the present day. Chevalier has written 11 novels, including “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” 6:30 p.m., Thursday, June 27, Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. Admission is free. All in-person tickets have been taken; sign up for Zoom access at info.supporthclib.org.

DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT: The award-winning Minnesotan reads from “Man in the Water,” the latest in his series about unofficial private investigator Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie, whose wife finds a body half submerged and frozen to a ladder in a marina on the St. Croix River. Tuesday, June 25, 6 p.m., Next Chapter Booksellers, 38 S. Snelling Ave., St. Paul.

JOSEPH KUEFLER: The Minnesota author and illustrator is hosting a storytime in honor of “The Digger and the Dark,” the fourth installment in his popular Digger series. In this story, Digger and the other big trucks, including Crane and Sweeps, are ready to go to bed, but two wide-awake, mischievous raccoons have other plans. Saturday, June 29, 10:30 a.m., Red Balloon Bookshop, 891 Grand Ave., St. Paul.

PATRICK NATHAN: Minnesotan talks about his new novel, “The Future Was Color,” about a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio scribe in postwar Hollywood, navigating the McCarthy-era studio system and living the life of a closeted man on Sunset Boulevard. When his girlfriend, a famous actress, offers him a writing residency at her Malibu estate, his world falls apart. This is a live radio interview with Josh Weber, host of Write On Radio. Doors open at 6 p.m., program at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 25, Gray Duck Tavern, 345 N. Wabasha St., St. Paul, presented by SubText Books.

POETRY AND JAZZ: Fourth annual Poetry and Jazz in the Holy Ground featuring jazz duo Larry McDonough and Richard Terrill and launch of the poetry collection “The Nations Underground: Writing With Our Ancestors” with more than a dozen area poets reading from the book, along with featured poets Margaret Hasse, Patrick Cabello Hansel and Dralandra Larkins. Hands-on lantern-making workshop led by local artists from the Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts. Presented by the Semilla Center and Not Dead Yet Poets Society. Admission free. 2 p.m., Saturday, June 29, Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery, 2945 Cedar Ave., Mpls.

GABRIELLE ZEVIN: Celebrates the release of the paperback edition of her novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” which has sold over a million copies since the critically acclaimed hardcover edition was published two years ago. It is the story of three young people who meet as college students and develop popular video games that bring them fame, joy and tragedy over the next 30 years. In conversation with Minnesota native Antonia Angress, author of “Sirens & Muses.” Friday, June 28, 7 p.m., Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Ave., Mpls., presented by Magers & Quinn. $27-$37. Ticket information at theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/gabrielle-zevin.