Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Leif Enger
cliophate's digital bookshelf
Slow plot. It took me a while to read this. Not a lot happens, and there is barely any world building. The characters shine, however. Especially Rainy and Lark. I definitely need something faster paced now.
I Cheerfully Refuse
Write your own review! Gloria M Epic! Before I read a review of Leif Enger's latest novel I was completely unaware of his work! I am thrilled to have finally discovered him and now simply have to read his previous books! "I Cheerfully Refuse" is a keeper, which means I must purchase it and add it to my collection (I borrowed it from the library)! It is masterfully written, eloquent and will resonate with the reader for a long, long time! Love and loss and grief and searching and a dystopian...
I Cheerfully Refuse
I Cheerfully Refuse Published by Grove Press in 336pp / $28.00 / 978-0802162939 As dark as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) is, it’s a novel that offers a powerful answer to a profound question: if mankind were to destroy itself and this world, is there anything that would, that could endure?
Leif Enger Author Talk at Drury Lane Books
The award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Leif Enger drew a crowd to Drury Lane Books. All images by Haley Brickner By Haley Brickner for Boreal Community Media - July 17, 2024 Author Leif Enger spoke about his new book, "I Cheerfully Refuse", at Drury Lane Books on July 13th. Enger, a New York Times best-selling author, is a native Minnesotan and his book takes place on our very own Lake Superior. Enger reads excerpts from his novel.
The Barnes & Noble Book Club | Book Club Picks
You Are Here (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition) by David Nicholls While an unexpected ten-day hike might not sound like the start of a life-changing romance, you'll be packing your bags as soon as you start reading You Are Here. P.S. Like all of you, we're hooked on the Netflix series One Day, and we know what you're thinking: keep the tissues close. But this is a laugh-out-loud charmer.
Building on a Theme: More Books to LEGO Set Pairings - B&N Reads
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace (brb, gotta go have a Millennial crisis). So, it’s only fitting that the iconic film gets a prequel of its own to celebrate the occasion. Set in the year before The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: The Living Force follows Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, and the Jedi Council as they seek to bring aid to a distant planet.
Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, April 26, 2024
Home Readers Current Issue Past Issues Pre-Orders Book Trade Subscribe Login Tomorrow is the last Saturday in April, and that means it's Independent Bookstore Day! Indies all over the U.S. are hosting authors, holding special events and contests, and offering exclusive merch.
The Reviews Are In! April 2024 Edition
The Reviews Are In! April 2024 Edition Readers, it’s about that time — with a whirlwind month of new books, music and movies aplenty, you might be wondering what our top favorite reads have been in April. From a poignant memoir to a striking novel set on the Scottish highlands, a journey through our anxiety ridden world to a stunning collection of essays, these are our best reviewed books of the month. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
The Monitor’s 10 Best New Books Of April - The Christian Science Monitor
Real Americans, by Rachel Khong Rachel Khong’s dazzling second novel probes issues of class, race, genetics, and identity. Her gripping narrative encompasses several love stories, political repression, the promise and limits of science, and the reverberations of dark secrets through two intertwined Chinese American families. I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif Enger In a rickety sailboat on storm-tossed Lake Superior,
The Monitor’s 10 best new books of April - CSMonitor.com
Real Americans, by Rachel Khong Rachel Khong’s dazzling second novel probes issues of class, race, genetics, and identity. Her gripping narrative encompasses several love stories, political repression, the promise and limits of science, and the reverberations of dark secrets through two intertwined Chinese American families. I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif Enger In a rickety sailboat on storm-tossed Lake Superior, a grieving musician flees a powerful enemy.
I Cheerfully Refuse
BookBrowse: While some may find its earnestness cloying, Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse is an absorbing adventure novel with a fully realized setting and a wholehearted embrace of hope. Set around Lake Superior in the Upper Midwest, I Cheerfully Refuse depicts a near-future America that has collapsed to the point where it more closely resembles the past. The coasts are the domain of the all-powerful trillionaire ruling class, known as "astronauts" for how untouchable they are to the common man.
Review: Leif Enger returns with stunning novel 'I Cheerfully Refuse' Original
“I Cheerfully Refuse” is a modern-day retelling of the myth of Orpheus, the musician who traveled to the underworld to rescue his wife. Set in an all-too-possible near future along Lake Superior, Leif Enger’s novel — his fourth — is stunning, almost pitch-perfect, with a harrowing tale and beguiling characters.
Spring Fiction: 7 Novels to Read Now
By WSJ Books Staff The season is bursting with bold new works of fiction, tales that circle the world and travel in time. Our reviewers offer a guide to some of Spring's most arresting novels. Clear By Carys Davies | Scribner A stranger arrives on a remote Scots isle. His mission is to dispossess the only man who lives there.
I Cheerfully Refuse
In I CHEERFULLY REFUSE, Leif Enger returns to the same territory near his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, that provided the locale for his last novel, VIRGIL WANDER. Set in an ominous dystopian near future, it’s an affecting story of love, loss and loyalty that’s also a colorful and deeply imagined tale of maritime adventure and survival.
A Three-Strand Rope: A Guest Post from Leif Enger
A Three-Strand Rope: A Guest Post from Leif Enger From his remarkable debut, Peace Like a River, to his brand new novel I Cheerfully Refuse — check out our fabulous Book Club edition — Leif Enger has captured our hearts and filled our bookshelves. In his exclusive essay below, Enger writes about the inspiration behind his latest and what led him to write it. Here’s Leif, in his own words. Hardcover $25.20 $28.00 Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
Review: Leif Enger returns with stunning novel ‘I Cheerfully Refuse’
"I Cheerfully Refuse" is a modern-day retelling of the myth of Orpheus, the musician who traveled to the underworld to rescue his wife. Set in an all-too-possible near future along Lake Superior, Leif Enger's novel - his fourth - is stunning, almost pitch-perfect, with a harrowing tale and beguiling characters.
Author Leif Enger On His Latest Novel 'I Cheerfully Refuse'
Leif Enger, author of the bestselling ‘Peace Like a River,’ talks about his latest novel and the ‘holiness’ of Lake Superior For 20 years, Leif Enger worked as a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his best-selling debut novel, "Peace Like a River," which was published in 2001 and named one of the year's best books by Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. His second novel, "So Brave, Young, and Handsome" was also a national best seller.
I Cheerfully Refuse
Excerpt I Cheerfully Refuse HERE AT THE BEGINNING it must be said the End was on everyone's mind. For example look at my friend Labrino who showed up one gusty spring night. It was moonless and cold, wind droning in the eaves, waves on Superior standing up high and ramming into the seawall. Lark and I lived two blocks off the water and you could feel those waves in the floorboards. Labrino had to bang on the door like a lunatic just to get my attention. Still, it was good he knocked at all.
Duluth's Leif Enger's 'I Cheerfully Refuse' is a 'stunning' and 'rare' novel from the 'Peace Like a River' writer
"I Cheerfully Refuse" is a modern-day retelling of the myth of Orpheus, the musician who traveled to the underworld to rescue his wife. Set in an all-too-possible near future along Lake Superior, Leif Enger's novel — his fourth — is stunning, almost pitch-perfect, with a harrowing tale and beguiling characters.
AudioFile Editors Pick 10 Fresh Audiobooks for April
This month, we can’t wait to hear from the one and only Dame Judi Dench, who reflects on her storied career on stage and screen and on the bard himself. Plus, literary fiction, new nonfiction from a popular historian and from a passionate activist, teen romance, grown-up romance, and explorations of the natural world.
The Stone Home
Kim’s riveting sophomore novel (after If You Leave Me) begins in 2011 with 40-something Eunju Oh receiving an unexpected visitor at her apartment in Daegu, South Korea. Narae, a 30-year-old Korean American woman raised in New York City by Eunju’s recently deceased childhood enemy, Sangchul Kim, has come in search of the truth about her familial origins. What follows is an account from both teenaged Eunju’s and Sangchul’s perspectives of their year in the Stone House three decades earlier.
Books Set in North Dakota Playlist on Libro.fm
Skip content The Children's Blizzard By David Laskin Narrated by: Paul Woodson Length: 9 hours 34 minutes January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal...
The Thread: Great novels that celebrate the Midwest
Louise Erdrich at her store Birchbark Books in Minneapolis. Listeners suggested two of her books — "The Round House" and "The Beet Queen" for Kerri Miller's list of Midwestern novels. Dawn Villella | AP Photo file When I talk about “adventurous reading,” I usually mean reading about other cultures, experiences and lives lived quite differently from ours. That means I haven’t done as much exploration as I should have of the stories that hold a mirror up to the Midwest.
Our 2020 Summer Reading List
The constant din of voices swirling and opinions flying in today’s physically-distanced, yet socially-shrinking world is overwhelming. Searching for trusted information from diverse points of view is daunting. Like many of you, we at the Rabbit Room are processing current events, both as an organization and personally, and are seeking to listen and act with empathy, peace, and grace in Christ.
bookSCREAM! February 14th, 2020 Newsletter
Is this email unwanted? Click here. Looking for something great to read? Here are today’s can’t-miss deals! Sales can end at any time, so grab these books right now before it’s too late. You can thank us later. Science Fiction / Fantasy Follow bookSCREAM You receive this daily newsletter because you or someone with knowledge of your email address submitted it to the bookSCREAM website in a request to sign up for our newsletter service.
Leif Enger’s New Novel Brims With Grace and Quirky Charm
What a wondrous miracle, to wake up, memory muddled, slightly unmoored, with just the task of relearning yourself, your friends, your hometown nestled along the ruggedly beautiful shores of Lake Superior. Everything that once was rundown and rusted suddenly seems new and exotic, buffed to a striking shine. Such is the plight of Virgil Wander, who gives Leif Enger’s new novel its name and is one of the most engaging protagonists I’ve encountered in years.
13 Books You Don't Want to Miss, According to Readers
BookBub member review: This story was INCREDIBLE!... Fight or Flight is enemies-to-lovers at its best. If you want to see how it’s done properly, you need to read this book! Caleb and Ava are characters who will steal a permanent piece of your hearts. Their chemistry is overpowering and their banter is so entertaining.
Author Leif Enger on story-light, character-heavy fiction
Author Leif Enger is a self-described introvert. When he was a reporter for MPR News he would stew in the car on the way to the interview, anticipating the worst. However, once he arrived he became a "chameleon," able to slip into his subject's world. That love of characters and people has found its way into Enger's fiction writing. "I've never written a character I didn't like," Enger told host Kerri Miller at the Fitzgerald Theater.
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
“With On a Sunbeam, Walden has created a science-fiction universe that is about women, queer love, old buildings, and big trees. It may piss off science-fiction purists… The most endearing aspect of On a Sunbeam is the confidence the narrative has in the world it exists within. The fish-shaped spaceship becomes a silent character, its face seemingly straining as it flies.
Leif Enger: Why I Carry a Kite With Me Everywhere
It was late April and a tan Corvair convertible came up the gravel drive. Its top was down and it trailed blue smoke. A small bright bonfire appeared to be driving. The Corvair eased into the yard next to the chokecherry hedge. The bonfire climbed out and grinned in the sun. I started to laugh. Dave was a college friend of my sister Liz. For a while he came to visit all the time. I was sure he was mostly there to visit me. Dave was the first hippie I knew well.
Top 10 Reads for Autumn 2018
Every month, Amazon staffers sift through hundreds of new books searching for gems. Here’s what Amazon editor Chris Schluep chose especially for Post readers. A young woman’s past life in British espionage during WWII unexpectedly revisits her 10 years later. Little, Brown & Co. A small Midwestern town blossoms to life through Enger’s depiction of its colorful denizens.
Virgil Wander | Grove Atlantic
“[Virgil Wander] brings out the charm and downright strangeness of the defiantly normal.” ―Wall Street Journal “The focus of [Enger’s] bright and breathing third novel feels mostly like life itself, in all its smallness and bigness, and what it means to live a good one.”―Booklist (starred review) “Virgil Wander is a fast-paced, humorous and mystical novel about hope, friendship, love and the relationship between a two and its people.”―BookPage (top pick) “Surprises and delights throughout;...
Virgil Wander - Leif Enger
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him.
Evensong on Vimeo
Mid-April and the birds and peepers are at full song. Here are moments from the lovely swamp on our Aitkin County farm. Music, "The Sun is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow," by Chris Zabriskie. Available from the Vimeo Music Store
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Leif
Contact Leif, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack