Open Book
1011 Washington Avenue South
Performance Hall, Second Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
This event is free and open to the public, please register here.
Minnesota author Bill Holm’s brilliant essay collection from his year in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province in the mid-1980s, Coming Home Crazy, will be celebrated by the Minnesota Chapter of the USCPFA (US-China Peoples Friendship Association), together with the work’s publisher, Milkweed Editions. Reflections on the essays from the collection, remembrances from colleagues of Holm in China and Minnesota, and appreciations of the Minnesota-Shaanxi Sister State/Province relationship of 40+ years will be shared over tea. Please register here.
This event is presented by USCPFA-MN & Milkweed Editions.
Bill Holm
Bill Holm was born in 1943 on a farm outside Minneota, Minnesota. He received a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1965 and an MA from the University of Kansas in 1967.
Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Here, one learns what it is like to travel by “hard-seat” train to a remote village, to smuggle Chinese classics back into China, and to experience Mickey Mouse-mania in the Middle Kingdom.