MN Reads
Series produced by WDSE
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.
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In this surprisingly personal conversation with The "award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger," the lifelong-Minnesotan-turned-Dul...
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 23:29
It couldn't have been more of a jolt.
Lifelong Minnesotan Anika Fajardo left Madison, WI in January to spend her break with the father she'd never...
- Added: May 10, 2019
- Length: 15:26
Writer and translator Barbara Sjoholm talks about the art of translation and her joy at helping bring some of the stories of the indigenous Sami pe...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 15:36
MN Reads has a conversation with Phyllis Root, the author of The Lost Forest, illustrated by Betsy Bowen and published in 2019 by University of Min...
- Added: Apr 25, 2019
- Length: 15:11
How do cultures change?
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 15:58
Missing and murdered Native women - and what happens to their children when they disappear - are at the center of Linda LeGarde Grover's latest nov...
Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 15:17
- Purchases: 1
Lorna Landvik shares her thoughts on book signing events, being a shameless "Minnesota booster," and her love of the Minnesota habits that we cling...
- Added: May 10, 2019
- Length: 14:10
If you read about Nancy Luxon's Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens, you might be tempted to take a pass.
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 12:28
Author Yvonne Pearson's charming book for kids is the perfect read for little folks who might be uncertain about camping for the first time.
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 06:19
The saga of three friends growing up in Minnesota in the '60s continues ... and author Jane St. Anthony describes her process: someth...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 13:31
Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrator Larry Day have created a must-read for the Grandma's Marathon season: how do you fit in when you're just ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 09:47
Martha Greene Phillip's dad was a little older than the average dad.
In fact, he was a Civil War baby, born in 1864.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 09:44
The backstory of Double Exposure: Images of Black Minnesota in the 1940s is almost as compelling as the book itself.
It's how a family discovered...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 14:54
Northland poet Barton Sutter joins us this morning to read from his newest work, and talk about poetry: "language," he says, "that would like to be...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 11:28
We don't hear a lot about tuberculosis today.
But at the turn of the 20th century, tuberculosis (also known as TB or consumption) was the leading ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 14:28
MN Reads has a conversation with Dave Page, the author of "F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: The Writer and His Friends at Home," published by Fitz...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 10:23
The family team of author Lori Evert, photographer Per Breiehagen and their daughter Anya have released their sixth "Wish book" with The Polar Bear...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 14:00
The warm and whimsical Patrice Johnson recounts her Minnesota childhood as a Catholic kid in a household where children weren't allowed in the kitc...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 13:25
We read history with a deepening sensitivity to who was reporting what - and why. And we have a starkly different perspective than did the people w...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 08:31
Katharine Johnson's story of Karhu the little bear deals with universal themes: earning money to buy something you want, finding a mentor to teach ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 06:21
