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.
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Cheryl Minnema's children's books start with a fond memory, one of many plucked from her childhood, growing up in a traditional household and part ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2019
- Length: 12:43
MN Reads: "The Thunder Before the Storm: The Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt" as told to Jon Lurie
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"Not-Indian" author and journalist Jon Lurie talks about the evolution of his relationship with activist and American Indian Movement (AIM) co-foun...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 15:14
What so many of the people I interviewed longed for - what I long for - is the ability to return to the place where our ancestors lived and be welc...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 17:57
Curiosity, collaboration, the language we all speak - artist and author Tara Sweeney talks about it all.
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 15:11
"An embarassment of riches."
That's what retired MNHS Press editor Marilyn Ziebarth and exhibit curator Brian Horrigan had to wade through when th...
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 11:56
On MN Reads, KUMD's Chris Harwood talks with writer Martin Keller and photographer Greg Helgeson about Hijinx and Hearsay: Scenester Stories from M...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 12:30
Our guest this morning is Mark Munger, and he's written the final chapter in his Finnish American trilogy, Kotimaa: Homeland.
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 10:42
The protagonist in Konnie Ellis's book Picnic in Venice "finds her way in the world through art."
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 13:33
When you lose your language, you lose more than just words. You lose the words you use to hold weddings and funerals and welcome children. You use ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2020
- Length: 15:47
"Publish or perish."
But if success in academia is tied to writing books and journal articles about your research and what you do, how do you le...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 14:07
Novelist Dr Carter Meland will be on campus tomorrow afternoon giving a talk called "Finding Our Way with Native Literature."
He's a senior lectur...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 07:48
When we have to take a deep dive into things we'd rather avoid, we call it a character-building experience.
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 12:37
Book nerds: if you had a 700-year old book in your collection, would you let anyone touch it?
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 10:21
33 years after he published Birds in Minnesota, author and birder Bob Janssen returns with a revised and updated edition. ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 13:02
In Hmong culture, it's an insult to call someone a "tigerbite."
It means you were stupid enough to approach a tiger and get bitten. ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 13:53
Duluth author Margi Preus joins us to talk about her book launch. Once a shindig as befits the launch of two books at once, it's become a virtual e...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 14:13
Most of the time, we don't talk about books that haven't been published yet on MN Reads, much less books that haven't even been written.
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 13:20
Playing the things-could-always-be-worse game isn't reliably useful to put things in perspective.
But still, 102 years ago, Duluthians were coping...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 16:08
Folks have been thinkng a lot about the second World War these days, remembering how the country came together with a common goal during a fr...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 13:16
