Talk of the Stacks new season announced

The Hennepin County Library has announced the upcoming season of Talk of the Stacks, its free author series. Here are the details:

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Author Michael Chabon will be the featured guest of Talk of the Stacks on September 21

September 21: Michael Chabon, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will present his new novel, Telegraph Avenue.

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October 4: Best-selling author and respected social critic Naomi Wolf shares Vagina: A New Biography. This latest work uses science and cultural history to reframe how we understand the vagina and the female consciousness.

November 17: British writer Geoff Dyer, known for his wildly inventive novels and uncategorizable works of nonfiction, will discuss Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, which won the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Criticism.

December 6: Journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, and novelist Calvin Trillin will present his new book Dogfight: An Occasionally Interrupted Narrative Poem About the Presidential Campaign and the paperback edition of Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of His Funny Stuff.

All talks are held at the Hennepin County Library - Minneapolis Central in Pohlad Hall, and are free and open to the public.