Top Five Koblas Reads

At any moment, Minnesota native John J. “Jack” Koblas was likely to break out into an animated talk about baseball, Science Fiction, Horror or Western literature, or even into a song. After all, his post-high school band, the Magpies, was inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in 2007. But get him into a conversation about Jesse James, and he was off and running. Koblas died on March 8 at age 70 in Minneapolis. He had Parkinson’s and had recently suffered a stroke and heart atta