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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The historical record is written and maintained, in many cases, by people who wanted their story told - and told in a certain way.
So when Susan B...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 11:51
Minnesota is home to more endangered species than just the wolf.
Adam Regn Arvidson takes a look, not only at the plants and animals on the list, ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 13:25
Twin Cities author Daniel Lancaster and his family fell under the spell of John Beargrease over ten years ago when they began traveling north on va...
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 06:57
Lorin Robinson talks about this work of historical fiction, and the modern-day pitfalls of writing across cultural lines.
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 09:59
Bill Sullivan spent years as a roadie with The Replacements, traveling with the band at first in the "lemon jail," a late 70's Ford Econoline van n...
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 08:32
Mushrooms are a fruit?
Who knew?!
Authors Michael Karns and Lisa Golden Schroeder certainly did. They, with photographer Dennis Becker have prod...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 17:47
- Purchases: 1
Long before "catfishing," email scams or Ted Bundy entered the scene, Minnesota's Harry Hayward was cutting a swath - sometimes literally - through...
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 16:40
"Imagination is an active power in the world that shapes how people live their lives"
So does anthropology need to rethink itself as more closely ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 08:15
Kate Cavett is the kind of person who wants to read the book, not see the movie.
She says she likes stories "in their original versions," so it's ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 12:17
What stands out about a person when they're gone?
Carol Lafavor died in 2011, but her legacy is that of a pioneer in the places where gender, sexu...
- Added: Mar 10, 2018
- Length: 09:39
You can air-condition a movie theater with an artesian well.
Drive-in movies didn't lose their popularity; land just got too expensive.
These and...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 15:58
Cultures define themselves in many ways, frequently with reference to the natural world.
On the surface, it's hard to see that as a bad thing.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 10:38
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Peter Geye, the author of Wintering, published in 2016 by Vintage Books. This novel, his third, revolves ...
- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 07:46
Widespread flu. Fires burning entire communities to the ground.
Soldiers fighting in faraway hot spots abroad and an anti-immigrant nationalism t...
- Added: Feb 17, 2018
- Length: 07:57
If the committee had seen Bob Dylan's high school poetry, would he still have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
For better or wo...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 07:47
Looking at Cathy de Moll's account of Will Steger's 1989 Trans-Antarctica Expedition on a bookstore shelf, you might be tempted to pick it up, remi...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 09:50
Immigrants. Working-class people who feel they have no voice. Jobs.
Labor historian Gary Kaunonen talks about the conversations then and now ... a...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 12:13
Art historian and host of Where's Art, Annie Dugan, takes the mic to interview Andreas Marks, the author of Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacq...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 08:19
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Andrea Swensson, the author of the book "Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound," pub...
- Added: Dec 29, 2017
- Length: 12:51
