Aaron Brown Comes to Town

The best blogger on the Range, Aaron Brown of Minnesota Brown, will be in the Twin Cities this week promoting his book: Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range (now available on Amazon). Brown is doing an event at Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota on Wednesday at 4pm and another at the Eagan Barnes & Nobles on Thursday from noon to 1pm. This is a great chance to meet one of Minnesota’s best bloggers.

In other Aaron Brown news, the Pioneer Press wrote up his book this week:

Made up of original essays on topics from Range culture to work ethics, politics to history, “Overburden” reflects Brown’s interest in the region where he is “the first in my paternal line to never work in a mine.”

Now a columnist for the Hibbing Daily Tribune, Brown served as that daily newspaper’s editor for two years. He’s an essayist and contributing producer for a KAXE radio program and founder/editor of the Iron Range’s news and politics blog, Minnesota Brown.com. His book, which combines humor, history, personal stories and original observations, is published by Red Step Press of Duluth, one of the state’s newest small publishers.

Bart Sutter, former Duluth poet laureate, says, “The Iron Range has found its voice in Aaron Brown.”

I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (damn law school) but Overburden is definitely on my reading list.