SubText Books is pleased to present a virtual event with Jana Larson on Wednesday, April 14th at 7:00 PM to celebrate Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay (Coffee House Press). Larson will be in conversation with Josh Ostergaard, author of The Devil's Snake Curve (Coffee House Press).

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/jana-larson-for-reel-bay/register

Short reading and conversation. Write On! Radio airs every TUESDAY 7 - 8 p.m. Central Time on 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul and live on the web at www.kfai.org. Podcast: https://www.kfai.org/feed/podcast/write-on-podcast

Virtual conversation with Jana Larson and Morgan Adamson on Wednesday, March 10 at 5:30 pm CST as they discuss Jana Larson's book Reel Bay.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/reel-bay-in-conversation/register

Reel Bay (Coffee House Press) is a remarkable, genre-bending essay about Jana's search for the real Takako Konishi. This captivating essay leans into the space between fact and fiction, life and death, author and subject, reality and delusion.

And check out a showing of Fargo with a discussion around Todd Melby's book A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere: The Untold Story of the Making of Fargo at the Trylon following this event.

https://www.trylon.org/film/fargo/

Jana Larson shares her experiences researching and writing Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay, a genre-blending book that is equal parts memoir, mystery, reclaimed screenplay, and travelogue. In the book, Larson asks what happened to Takako Konishi, the Japanese woman found dead outside Detroit Lakes, Minnesota in 2001. Konishi's death has spawned an urban legend about her search for the money in the movie Fargo, capturing the attention of the media and filmmakers. Although her death was ultimately ruled a suicide, speculation remains about what drove her to kill herself so far from home.

Register in advance here.

January 19th is the publication date of Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay by Jana Larson, an unconventional and contemplative nonfiction book on the mysterious death of a young Japanese woman.

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