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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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
Allen Beaulieu was happy when Prince asked him to shoot some cover photos for an upcoming album. (Frankly, he wasn't a fan of the previous cover p...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 14:20
Thomas Peacock says it was an idea he had years and years ago -- but he says the first manuscript was "horrible."
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 08:36
How Minnesotan Matt Goldman left home for Hollywood "because he didn't know any better," became a success writing for Seinfeld (in spite of himself...
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 10:27
Duluth's newly-minted Poet Laureate (not even 24 hours yet) for 2018-2020 shares his thoughts on making poetry "more a part of the everyday fabric...
- Added: Jun 21, 2019
- Length: 09:09
Marcia Anderson's fascinating, gorgeously illustrated book of the art of the Ojibwe bandolier bag had its genesis in a box she opened in 1981.
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 11:23
MN Reads has a conversation with Mary Lahr Schier, the author of The Northern Gardener: From Apples to Zinnias: 150 Years of Garden Wisdom, publish...
- Added: Feb 07, 2019
- Length: 09:32
They look like grasses but aren't.
They have "reduced morphology," which means they're hard to identify.
But not only are sedges and rushes an in...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 13:51
Anishinabe author Heid Erdrich talks about how a social media post spurred her to create a collection of contemporary Native poetry by exciting new...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 15:36
Sarah Bamford Seidelmann fell in love with a (dead, stuffed, expensive) walrus in a second-hand store. And even though they didn't end up leaving t...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 11:51
A leader in Minnesota's environmental history and graduate of Duluth Central High school and UMD, Grant J. Merritt joins us to talk about his book ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2019
- Length: 15:04
History always has an agenda, says author Annette Atkins.
Many of us grew up in a time when the agenda was to teach patriotism.
But now, she says, ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 09:04
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Michael Schumacher, the author of The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul, published...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 13:26
Duluth musician turned author Adam Herman talks about his debut ("odd") novel Limbo, how he developed a tough enough skin to put hi...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 09:25
A collaborative project with author Brenda Child, artist Jonathan Thunder and language immersion teacher Gordon Jourdain produced a delightful tale...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 10:01
Darkness matters.
- Added: Jul 06, 2018
- Length: 12:34
Author Cary Griffith talks about his chronicle of 2007's Ham Lake fire and the process - and challenges - of documenting the most destructive wildf...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 12:18
MN Reads: "Searching for Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers" by Phyllis Root, photographed by Kelly Povo
From: WDSESeries: MN Reads
The story of how Searching for Minnesota's Native Wildflowers came to be written, starts, as the very best stories do, with a road trip. ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 08:36
If you can't actually have breakfast with James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas, this is the next best thing. ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 10:13
What do you do with another pile of beets form your CSA? If you are growing more tomatoes in your garden than you can cook into sauce or simply loo...
- Added: Jun 28, 2018
- Length: 09:50
