In its nearly 34 years, from 1970 to 2004, the Hungry Mind grew from a tiny neighborhood bookshop to a regional powerhouse with a national reach. It became a favored venue for appearances by hundreds of authors of local, national and international stature. Its quarterly book review, the Hungry Mind Review, reached tens of thousands of readers in all fifty states and across Canada. Its press, Hungry Mind Press, published fifty titles. It promoted the local literary arts, especially small presses, poetry and fiction, and their creators. Financial pressures forced it to close in the summer of 2004.

In 1970 an idea occurred to David Unowsky: Open a bookstore in his neighborhood, near Macalester College in St. Paul. It debuted with two small rooms in October of that year, and he called it the

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