Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter, whom we’re happy to once again claim as a local (he recently returned from a long exile in Ann Arbor) has been at it for twenty-five years now, and his body of work—which includes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays—has gained both a national reputation and a cult following. His novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award nominee and was recently made into a film. Baxter’s teaching at the University of Minnesota these days, but he keeps turning out books (he’s purportedly an insomniac), and his latest, The Soul Thief, involves a graduate student wrestling with the realization that he may not be who he thinks he is. Or something like that.

7-8 p.m., MinneapolisCentral Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis; 612-630-6174.