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.


402 Pieces

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"How to Survive: The Extraordinary Resilience of Ordinary People" by Andy Steiner
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Andy Steiner talks about the idea of resilience ... and how the people she interviewed for her book demonstrate that we may have more than w...

Bought by KPIK-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 10:41
  • Purchases: 2
"Goodnight Loon" by Abe Sauer
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Abe Sauer explains how reading the same book over and over and over to three kids can result in writing a new book out of desperation! Univ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 08:04
  • Purchases: 1
"One Frozen Lake" by Deb Larson
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Deb Larson talks about the experiences in her own family that shaped her story "One Frozen Lake," about a grandfather introducing his grandc...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
"The Christmas Wish" by Lori Evert and Per Breiehagen
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Lori Evert and her husband, nationally-recognized photographer Per Breiehagen, were captivated by their daughter, Anja, in some of the tradi...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
"Winter Bees" by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Rick Allen
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Poet Joyce Sidman talks about - and reads from - her collaboration of art and poetry with local artist Rick Allen. Published by Houghton Mifflin.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:57
"My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks" by Brenda Child
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
Caption: Brenda Child
In her book, author and historian Brenda Child tells her own family's stories from the Red Lake Reservation and stories of a people trying to susta...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 1
"The Prey" by Tom Isbelll
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
Caption: by Tom Isbell
Actor, playwright, director and UMD theater professor Tom Isbell, it turns out, is an author, too. He talks about his "dark side" and incorporating...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
"The Tiny Wish" by Lori Evert and Per Breiehagen
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Lori Evert is an author, her husband Per Breiehagen is a professional photographer and their daughter, Anja, stars in another magical photographic ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1
"Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life" by Karen Babine
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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In this collection of essays, author Karen Babine looks at the difference between location and place ... and finding the best version of yourself. ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 14:23
"Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota" edited by Alexs Pate with Pamela Fletcher and J. Otis Powell
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Pamela Fletcher talks about - and reads from - her contributions to the anthology "Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota." Publishe...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 11:18
  • Purchases: 1
"Citizen Swain: Tales from a Minnesota Life" by Thomas H. Swain
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Tom H. Swain's long career spanned the spheres of politics, education, and business. But for decades, even long past retirement, he has also serve...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
"Hungry Coyote" by Cheryl Blackford, illustrated by Laurie Caple
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Cheryl Blackford was inspired by the sight of urban coyotes in her Twin Cities neighborhood to write this gorgeously illustrated children's ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
"Degrees of Freedom: The Origin of Civil Rights in Minnesota" by William D. Green
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Bill Green is the author of "Degrees of Freedom: The Origin of Civil Rights in Minnesota," a book that examines the dichotomy between Minnesota's p...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 16:48
"The Crops Look Good: News from a Midwestern Family Farm: by Sara DeLuca
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Sara DeLuca reluctantly accepted a packet of family letters from a relative decades ago, and she talks about the book that they became decades late...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:52
"Enchantment Lake: A Northwood's Mystery" by Margie Preus
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Margi Preus takes us to the lake for a whodunit. Published by University of Minnesota Press.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 08:20
"All the Lights On: Reimagining Theater with Ten Thousand Things" by Michelle Hensley
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Michelle Hensley is the author of "All The Lights On: Reimagining Theater with Ten Thousand Things." It's a book about a theater company that wante...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 12:07
  • Purchases: 1
"North Country: The Making of Minnesota" by Mary Lethert Wingerd
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Mary Lethert Wingerd gives us a tantalizing glimpse of what Minnesota might have been had the bi-cultural society of Europeans and Indians f...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 12:05
  • Purchases: 1
"A People's History of the Hmong" by Paul Hillmer
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Paul Hillmer says his book evolved from a class assignment to have his Hmong students conduct interviews with their parents. How an oral -...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 1
"We Know How This Ends: Living While Dying" by Bruce Kramer with Cathy Wurzer
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
Caption: Cathy Wurzer and Bruce Kramer, Credit: Cathy Murzer
Perhaps it was fate that brought a man diagnosed with ALS together with a journalist facing her own life-rending challenges. From their collabora...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds" by Laura Erickson and Marie Read
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
Caption: Laura Erickson and KUMD's Mimmu Salmela
Laura Erickson joins us to talk about her new book, "Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds."...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 11:21
  • Purchases: 1