Event Details

Every year in December, we celebrate with A Very Special MacReads. Macalester plays host, and we all get a little festive. This year we're finally able to return to campus in person after a pandemic pause on this beloved tradition. 
Please join us on Thursday, December 15 at the Briggs House. Kate Baxter-Kauf had the brilliant idea to read Mac alumnus Charles Baxter's collection of essays set in Minneapolis, There's Something I Want You To Do. 
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About the book...As we follow a diverse group of Minnesota citizens, each grappling with their own heightened fears, responsibilities, and obsessions, Baxter unveils the remarkable in what might otherwise be the seemingly inconsequential moments of everyday life. 
About the author...Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There’s Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net. His stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The O. Henry Prize Story Anthology. He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Baxter lives in Minneapolis.