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Dear Reader,
A million thanks from the bottom of our hearts for another wonderful Indie Bookstore Day! Bookstore Day is just about the same age as Content, as the first year it was celebrated nationwide was also our first year in business -- so it feels a little like a birthday party for our shop, too. We were a lot less tired this year than last, when we'd just finished moving the shop into our new space!
It was a lovely day all around, with so many of you stopping in to check out our St. George's Day Picks, try the new Gumball Poetry Machine (it's here to stay), or to share about one of your favorite books at the About a Book Open Mic. What an honor to host you, and what a joy to feel the love!
This week we're continuing our busy events schedule, with Weike Wang at Carleton this afternoon, and our second Poetry Month Reading, this one by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs. Keep reading for details.
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 Weike Wang, author of the award-winning debut novel, Chemistry
Monday, April 30th @ Carleton College @ 4 pm
Content and the Carleton College Chemistry department are pleased to welcome Weike Wang for a talk and book signing in the Athenaeum at Carleton College on Monday, April 30th.
A luminous and very funny debut novel that has received praise from the likes of Ann Patchett, Stephanie Danler, and Ha Jin: Chemistry follows a young Chinese American woman who must discover what she really wants before her life can truly begin. Chemistry is the winner of a PEN/Hemingway Award, a Whiting Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, MPR, Entertainment Weekly, and more.
Weike Wang is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares, which also named Chemistry the winner of its John C. Zacharis Award. A “5 Under 35” honoree of the National Book Foundation, Weike currently lives in New York City.
Find more details on our website, and let us know you're coming on Facebook.
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 Poetry Night with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Monday, April 30th @ 7 pm
Content is pleased to host Jennifer Kwon Dobbs for our second April Poetry Night, when she'll read from her latest publication, Interrogation Room. In Interrogation Room, the poet's second collection, poems that restore redacted speech and traverse forbidden borders suture together divided bodies, geographies, and kinships to confront the unending Korean War's legacies of forced distances and militarized silences. Kwon Dobbs powerfully entwines uneasy, tentative reconciliations among South Korea's relatives in the North, her birth family in the South, and the transnational diaspora to which she belongs to resist the war's deprivations of language and imagination.
Poetry Nights are presented in collaboration with the Northfield Poet Laureate. The Northfield Poet Laureate program is sponsored by the City of Northfield and funded by the Northfield Public Library and the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC), in partnership with the Northfield Arts and Culture Commission.
Find more details on our website, and let us know you're coming on Facebook.
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Mark your calendar! Here's what's up next at Content:
See you in the stacks!
- Jessica, Nate, and all the staff at Content
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