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.


420 Pieces

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James Bird kind of likes to right - or write - past wrongs. When the director/screenwriter (We Are Boats, Honeyglue) decided to follow a longtime ...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 18:36
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Journalists can get in a lot of trouble following their curiosity down the rabbit hole. And they can also have a lot of fun. Just ask Todd Melby,...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 13:07
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Ranae Hanson was already deeply committed to combating climate change when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Then suddenly everything made s...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 19:35
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Liz Granholm heard many stories about Rabbit and Otter's ricing trip when she was growing up. She took different lessons from each telling: the ne...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 11:32
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KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with Eric Dregni, author of "For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness," published in 2021...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 17:37
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A character readers may remember from Thomas Peacock's Beginnings and The Tao of Nookomis has penned his own story. Author and publisher Thomas P...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 13:42
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Linda LeGarde Grover has turned her hand to telling some old stories in her latest book, Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong: ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 07:52
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KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with writer and journalist Martin Keller about The Space Pen Club: Close Encounters of the 5th Kind -- UFO Disclosure, ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 13:15
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KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with Ronda Snow, the author of a new children's book, The Little People and the Water of Life that will be published in...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 10:38
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KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with Beth Dooley, a Minneapolis-based chef and columnist who is the author of The Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 12:42
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Joy and tears were both a part of the experience for author Staci Lola Drouillard in writing the 2022 release Seven Aunts published by the Universi...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 08:32
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Sarah Bamford Seidelmann talks about her Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards nominated novel "Where the Deer Dream"

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:16
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Gary Boelhower talks about his Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards nominated children's book "A Common Thirst"

  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 12:56
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The North 1033's Chris Harwood speaks with Peter Geye, the author of The Ski Jumpers, a novel published in 2022 by University of Minnesota Press. G...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:48
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Marie Zhuikov talks about her new book of essays “Meander North”

  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 15:14
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Poet Bart Sutter talks about his new book “So Surprised to Find You Here”

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 10:56
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Charlie Parr talks about his new book "Last of the Better Days Ahead"

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 07:51
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Poet Linda LeGarde Grover talks about the book “The Sky Watched”

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 08:29
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Author Jeffrey Sauve talks about his new book “Murder at Minnesota Point"

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 10:36