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Published: 09 September 2019

Koyama Officially Launches "Let Me In" on Sept. 13

   Former Cargill executive Elaine Koyama officially released her memoir, LET ME IN: a Japanese American Woman Crashes the Corporate Club 1976-1996, with a well-attended party at The Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hopkins, Minn., the evening of Sept. 13. 
  More than 100 people filled the community room at the Center to help Koyama celebrate. LET ME IN is the story of how Koyama worked her way up in a once male dominated field to become one of the top executives at Cargill.
   Learn more about the book at www.elainekoyama.com.

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Published: 20 August 2019

"Oranges" Featured at Montana Book Festival Sept. 13

   University of Minnesota Professor Gary Eldon Peter's award-winning debut short story collection, Oranges, was featured at the Montana Book Festival in Missoula on Sept. 13. He did a reading followed by a signing.

     Oranges traverses in linked short stories the life of Michael, a gay man from the Midwest who must find his own confusing path to adulthood after personal loss. Michael is confronted with a number of challenges, including coming to terms with his sexuality in the age of AIDS, facing his family’s difficulties accepting him, dealing with the death of his mother and the aging of his father, and starting over after losing a partner. Novelistic in scope, Oranges is about the never-ending search for connection, validation, intimacy, and, above all, love.

   In August,  Gary Eldon Peter appeared at the Austin Area Artworks Festival in Austin, Minn., and also did a reading at Zenith Bookstore in Duluth, Minn., on Aug. 29 to celebrate the publication of Queer Voices, published by the Minnesota Society . He has a story in the anthology.

   Learn more about Gary Eldon Peter's work at GaryEldonPeter.com.