Sample Works
Minneapolis Star Tribune Editorial
Can't We Stop This Plague of Errant Apostrophes?
Repeat after me: possession, contraction, possession, contraction.
That's it. That's all. All this little Jackson Pollock-like flicking of random little dabs of ink everywhere has to stop. There are rules and reasons for using the apostrophe, and you contribute to the collective befuddlement and the moronization of the culture if you don't follow them. Read More
Minneapolis Star Tribune Book Review
He Read/She Read
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
P: Seeing as how the Christmas season is in full cry, we thought it’d be a good idea to take a fresh look at what is arguably one of the best…
K: …or at least one of the most popular… Read More
Minneapolis Star Tribune Book Review
He Read/She Read
“I’m With Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up” by Gene Weingarten and Gina Barreca ($21, Simon & Schuster, 240 pp)
P: We just read a brand new book together.
K: Well, not really together, more like at the same time. Read More
The New York Times Travel Essay
The Circus Is Coming; on Wheels
I CRAVE a front row seat at passing spectacles, be it the Carnival dance parade called Ra Ra in the streets of Haiti, the parade-pilgrimage of El Rocio in Andalusia, Spain, where women in ruffled skirts ride in ox carts with men in bolero jackets, or the Halloween parade through Greenwich Village with floats bearing the ice cream moguls Ben and Jerry in cow costumes. Read More
The Wall Street Journal
Killed Long Ago, These Outlaws Refuse to Die
Spurs jingling, duster billowing and a desperado gleam in his eye, Chip DeMann swings back in the saddle this week for his 32d year of robbery during the 125th anniversary of the Northfield, Minn. bank raid. The James-Younger gang's foiled September 7, 1876 bank robbery took seven minutes, triggered the largest manhunt in US history up to that time and launched an enduring national industry in the enjoyment and study of outlawry. The attempt is celebrated as The Defeat of Jesse James Days, a September afternoon when Jesse James, Cole Younger and their larcenous pals got their comeuppance from a bunch of Minnesota farmers and storekeepers. Read More
“SAVED proves once again that love rescues us all.”
Rita Mae Brown, Emmy award winning author of the Sneaky Pie Brown mystery series
“Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful stuff. These are beautiful tales told beautifully. Karin has poured her intense love of animals into every sentence. That love and her considerable genius at writing come through in ways that cannot but touch and uplift any reader still possessed of an immortal soul. And as for Judy’s photos, the woman is amazing. I LOVED them. My god.”
Nevada Barr, award winning mystery novelist
“SAVED is an extraordinarily poignant book. Unfortunately, we tend to treat animals even worse than we treat ourselves or others socially, emotionally, and politically. Redemption comes from changing our behavior toward animals which then spreads to the rest of our lives. They try their best to help us in this process. This book is a roadmap for our possible redemption.”
Novelist Jim Harrison, author of “Legends of the Fall”
"Saved: Rescued Animals and the Lives They Transform," is nearly unbearable The book is also absolutely riveting, but I wasn't about to crack this one without knowing, going in, that each of these tales has a happy ending.
Amy Goetzman, MinnPost.com review