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Have you read the 2024 One Book Indee title, ‘The Lager Queen of Minnesota’ by J. Ryan Stradal?

J. Ryan Stradal describes his love for food and the Midwest with In the Moment's Lori Walsh.

Minnesota-native J. Ryan Stradal's new novel pays homage to the supper clubs of the upper Midwest and our intertwined love of food and family.

In 1986, a shy and intelligent 24-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he survived by his wits […]

J. Ryan Stradal knows about supper club culture in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the rest of the northern midwest – he grew up in a town where those dining establishments blurred the lines between restaurant and social club, family and community. That culture is at the heart of his new novel, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, where main character Mariel has inherited one such supper club from her grandparents. In today's episode, Stradal tells Here & Now's Robin Young a...

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Author J. Ryan Stradal recommends works by Laura Esquivel, Ruth Ozeki, and more.

Beth Golay recently visited with the author of "Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club", J. Ryan Stradal about his love of the midwest, what exactly a supper club is, the burden of family pressures that parents pass on to their children, and more.

A 1994 Hastings High School graduate just released his third novel. J. Ryan Stradal released “Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club” on Tuesday, April 18.

Laugh along when Dane Cook presents "The Perfectly Shattered Tour" Sunday at the Genesee Theatre. Plus, plan ahead for a variety of Earth Day events this weekend, Shen Yun at the Rosemont Theatre, the Professional Championship Bull Riders at the NOW Arena and more.