MN Reads

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Author interviews connecting you with the latest books by Minnesota authors.

Find out who's writing in Minnesota on Minnesota Reads. The North 1033 spotlights books by Minnesota authors every week.


419 Pieces

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Freelance illustrator and University of Minnesota instructor John Owens didn't grow up heading to the Boundary Waters every summer, but onc...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 08:06
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The repercussions on society from the pandemic are usually pretty grim. But Duluth's poet laureate, Gary Boelhower, says poetry reading be...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:41
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A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota was published back in 2016, but it's enjoyed a renaissance of sorts this summer. The collection ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 14:28
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Thank heavens for Chico Bon Bon. The irrepressible monkey with a tool belt embarks upon his sixth picture book adventure with calm, confidence, an...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 13:08
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Former Minnesotan Linda Norlander calls Tacoma, Washington home these days, but she's still deeply tied to her roots in Pelican Ra...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 13:28
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Growing up in Milwaukee, Derek Nicholas wasn't really plugged into either his cultural heritage or the great outdoors. But when he arrived in rura...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 09:39
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Minnesotans can read Chad Montrie's article “'In That Very Northern City'”: Recovering a Forgotten Struggle for Racial Integration in Duluth" i...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Writer, radio personality, podcaster and guy-with-depression John Moe talks about finding what works for you in addition to meds and therapy (dog...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 17:29
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Jeffrey Briggs is a big fan of waterfronts. From the frigid waters of Puget Sound to the frigid waters of Lake Superior's North Shore, he's writt...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 12:53
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Kao Kalia Yang's book The Shared Room begins as what she calls "a love letter" to the 6-year-old who drowned three years ago at the Lake Elmo Par...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 12:20
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Author Carolyn Holmbrook is our guest this morning, talking about her book Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify coming out at the perfect time, ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 17:26
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Author Sue Leaf on how her writing group keeps her honest, on the unexpected appearance of John Beargrease Sr. in her story (he was a mail carrie...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 15:59
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Forty percent of people who developed bowel obstructions died of them, up until the 1960s. Now it's less than four percent.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 14:48
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"You can't be what you don't see." That's why Anthony Scott and Dr. Chaunda Scott are so dedicated to continuing their father's work. Walter Scott...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:53
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If you knew a professional "fisherwoman" ("fisherperson") who became an accidental host of a fishing show on public television, had a fixer-upper h...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 09:38
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Scott Carpenter teaches French literature, literary theory, and cross-cultural studies at Carleton College in Northfield. So when i...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 13:50
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When Tom and Elizabeth Peacock started Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing, one of their goals was to create Native children's books for...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 07:49
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What started last year as a 100-day challenge and then a way to reach out to friends on social media has become physician-turned-shamanic-h...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 16:44
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Deborah Appleman loves the quote from Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 14:36
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Chuck Dayton has been taking pictures of loon families on his little lake near Ely for many of the 63 years he's been spending summers t...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 08:58