Author of the Hour... Will Weaver

Will Weaver writes fiction of all sorts, and is quite the accomplished Midwestern writer. The American Library Association gave him a nod when it nominated his YA series Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball as one of its "Best Books" for young adults.

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Annnd... a calming sampling to make you smell Spring in your toes on a Tuesday, via The Loft Literary Center:

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"Spring in the Twin Cities means open water and barges and tulips outside the Saint Paul Hotel; "up north," the landscape remains chilly, bland, muted. The Mississippi outside my library window palely loiters, icebound and still. On the far shore, the palette of colors is from the Ebenezer Scrooge Crayon Collection: leafless aspen, dusty-green conifer, a brushstroke of washed-blond riverbank grass.

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"Barely into May, there’s blue daylight at 4:30 a.m. Birds are in full call at 5:00, the woodpeckers drumming like the Blue Man Group; a beaver, not long out of her cold dark mud hut, thuds the water again and again with her spatulate tail."

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