MN Reads

Series produced by WDSE

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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.


425 Pieces

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Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Duluth author Margi Preus, whose new picture book, Storm's Coming! (2016, Minnesota Historical Society Pre...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 09:31
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The family affair that is author Lori Evert, National Geographic photographer Per Breiehagen and photogenic daughter Anja is back with a new advent...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 08:15
Caption: Ellie Schoenfeld
Duluth's newly-minted poet laureate, Ellie Schoenfeld, reads from her work and talks poetry, pretension, community ... and the value of followin...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:14
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Wisconsin's poet laureate joins us this morning to read, among other things, the titular poem of Apprenticed to Justice

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 11:38
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Bob King is a photographer by day in his job at the Duluth News Tribune, so perhaps it came as a bit of a surprise when he was head-hunted to write...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 07:58
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover and a bee. And revery. The revery alone will do if bees are few. ~ Emily Dickinson...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 09:18
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The story of Canada's most decorated Native soldier for bravery (and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history) is all at onc...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 12:04
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Linda LeGarde Grover's new collection of poetry, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives, is not a collection of "pretty poems."

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 07:16
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Eve and Gary Wallinga share their guide to the best waterfalls of Minnesota's North Shore, including ratings on hike difficulty, trail quality, th...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 08:09
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Duluth poet Julie Gard reads work from her NEMBA-nominated poetry collection Home Studies.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:11
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You can take the ranger out of the Iron Range ... but you can't take the Iron Range out of the ranger.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:52
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Rudy Senarighi's love of fishing can be traced back to two incidents.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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Ava Finch is a character in her own right. And she's written a book called "Fishing with RayAnne," the story of a thirty-something former pro angl...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 08:33
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Linda Hatinen sets a gripping historical romance in the Esko of one hundred years ago.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:28
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The internet age means almost anyone can be a genealogist but memoirist Cathy LaForge Tonkin says stories are more than names and dates. ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:54
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Our guest is Ann M Lewis. Her book Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes [Wisconsin Historical Society Press] was nominated for a ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 13:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Printmaker Cecilia Lieder thinks of herself as a storyteller ... but it was only recently she decided to try her hand at writing them down. The re...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 07:02
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Our guest is Francine Sterle. Her book of poetry, What Thread? [Red Dragonfly Press], was nominated for a 2016 NEMBA award in the Poetry category. ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Remind Me That I'm Wild, Credit: The Master Key Press
Our guest is Tera Freese. Her book of poetry, Remind Me That I'm Wild [The Master Key Press], with illustrations by Lindy Kehoe, was nominated for...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Elliot Foster on the challenge of making the ubiquitous Minnesota "cabin" experience both recognizable ... and unique.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:47