TODD ALMOND: Discusses “Slow Train Coming” with Gwen Walz. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls.

DOBBS/DOMOKOS: Translators Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Johanna Domokos present Nillas Holmberg’s “Underfoot,” first written in Northern Sami, which asks what prevents an industrialized nation-state from achieving its desire to extract maximum resources. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls.

WENDY A. HOROWITZ: Presents “Milkweed and Honey Cake.” 7 p.m. Monday, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls.

SUJATA MASSEY: Award-winning author who grew up in St. Paul discusses “The Mistress of Bhatia House,” fourth in her series featuring Perveen Mistry, the first female lawyer in cosmopolitan Mumbai and one of the first ever in India, modeled after a historic Parsi lawyer who practiced law in the 1920s. In this book Mistry seeks justice for a mistreated young woman.  Presented in Metropolitan Library Service Agency’s Club Book series. Free. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Plymouth Public Library, 15700 36th Ave. N., Plymouth.

JUDITH C. STERN: Presents a reading and visual show based on her book “Gallery Days, Memories from the Artists’ Quarter in Historic Downtown Minneapolis,” set in the thriving warehouse district where Stern had a gallery in the 1970s and ’80s. Her discussion includes the rise and fall of the arts scene based on her 200-page, photo-filled book. 7 p.m. Thursday, Washington County Heritage Center, 1862 Greeley St., Stillwater.

RENEE VALOIS: Offers true ghost stories and how to deal with troublesome spirits when she signs copies of her book “Collecting Spirits.” 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, DreamHaven Books, 2301 E. 38th St., Mpls.

What else is going on

Sad news from Hamline University, where the administration has defunded for the coming fiscal year the 28-year-old Water-Stone Review, effectively killing the nationally recognized, award-winning literary journal published annually by Hamline’s MFA creative writing programs. According to the Hamline newspaper the Oracle, Water-Stone’s Executive/Managing Editor Meghan Maloney-Vinz has already lost her job at the publication that was also a lab for students to learn about publishing. Water-Stone’s demise brought instant reactions from former students and faculty, describing the decision as “criminal,” “just awful,” “sad and disturbing.”

The end of Water-Stone is part of the larger issue of whether the school’s creative writing MFA programs will be “sundowned” Although the administration has said the decision is still up in the air, partly because it needs faculty approval, students are organizing a letter-writing campaign to interim president Kathleen Murray urging her to keep the MFA in writing program.  Author Michael Kiesow Moore, one of the first to sound the alarm about the possible end, posted: “This program saved my life.” The Oracle pointed out in a large headline that the creative writing master’s program is one of the last of its kind in Minnesota.

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