Image of the Day: 'An Event that Feels Like a Blessing' at Minneapolis's Magers & Quinn

At Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis, Minn., on Monday, February 2, local authors (from left) Tracy Youngblom (Because We Must; University of Massachusetts Press), Renee Gilmore (Wayfinding: A Memoir; Trio House Press), Kelly Foster Lundquist (Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage; Eerdmans), and moderator Michael Kleber-Diggs (My Weight in Water, Spiegel & Grau, Dec. 2026) discussed the power of memoir and the various themes and topics this form can explore.

During the q&a, a woman in the audience told the panelists that she had been watching people walk by the bookstore as they were all gathered. She said that, to a person, they paused and smiled. She added that the event felt like a blessing, given all that was happening in the Cities right now.

A signing followed, and all four authors made donations correlating with book sales to local social justice programs in honor of their community.