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Eric Dregni
Eric Dregni is the author of 20 books including You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp, Vikings in the Attic, Let’s Go Fishing, Weird Minnesota, and Never Trust a Thin Cook. As a Fulbright fellow to Norway, he survived a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit, took the “meat bus” to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners, and compiled the stories in In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream. He is Professor of English, Journalism, and Italian at Concordia Saint Paul and, in the summer, dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village, Lago del Bosco. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, three kids, and an attentive Austrialian shepherd named Arrow.
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For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness (University of Minnesota, 2021)
The Impossible Road Trip (Quarto, 2021)
When the Stones Came to Town (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019)
Life Vespa (Quarto, 2018)
You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
Let’s Go Fishing (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
By the Waters of Minnetonka (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy’s Culinary Capital (University of Minnesota, 2009)
Art Cars: Museum on the Streets (Speck Press, 2009)
In Cod We Trust: A Norwegian Year (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
Midwest Marvels: Roadside Attractions across Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of our Fantastic Future (Speck Press, 2006)
Weird Minnesota (Sterling, 2006)
Zamboni: Coolest Machines on Ice (Voyageur Press, 2006)
Let’s Go Bowling (MBI Publishing, 2005)
The Scooter Bible (Whitehorse Press, 2005)
Grazie a Dio non sono bolognese! Un americano a Modena (Il Fiorino, 2003)
Minnesota Marvels: Roadside Attractions in the Land of Lakes (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
Ads that Put America on Wheels (Motorbooks, 1996)
