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 incomparable Dudley Riggs on the international incident he created that changed the face of a nation, how Ringling Bros. "killed the brand," an...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 11:36
Susan Price is tired of plants being just ... wallpaper for our lives.
She wants us to think about them: to recognize their importance, to set asi...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 09:24
Author Nora Murphy had a lot of questions about the land her family settled when they came to America, fleeing the potato famine in Ireland.
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 10:58
Author Sarah Stonich published Shelter in 2011, when she was a single mother looking for connections to home and family for herself and her son.
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- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 09:43
Despite a gardening career that spans decades, author John Whitman says he thought he knew more than he did when he sat down to produce Fresh From ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 09:16
A friend's collection of mystery stories by Minnesota authors sparked this collection of short stories for young readers. Editors Jay Peterson and...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 09:53
The fun and funny Lorna Landvik joins us to talk about why she never reads her books again once she writes them, the characters who yammer in her h...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 09:09
Orders given, orders recieved, courts-martial ...
An almost 200 year old order book, compiled by Colonel Josiah Snelling's adjutant between 1826 a...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 09:05
When canoe enthusiasts Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims set out to write the first book on the history of canoes in the entire North American continent,...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 10:51
Bea Ojakangas has written a lot of cookbooks over the years ... and delivered a lot of talks about it.
In fact, one of those talks, called "Cookin...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 09:02
The wave of grassroots feminist organizing that built beginning in the late '70s had its origin in some unlikely places.
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 12:47
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Mindy Mejia, the author the novel Everything You Want Me to Be [Emily Bestler Books, 2017], a thriller/mys...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 04:58
Writing a counting book for kids - how hard could it be?
Phyllis Root, though, had other ideas. By the time she was done, she'd completed a down-...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 06:51
Maybe "prophet" is too strong a word to describe Larry Stillday.
Maybe "prescient" is a better one.
When Larry Stillday died in May of 2014, he l...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 10:36
Essayist and artist Andy Sturdevant joins us in the studio to weigh in on hotdish like a Rothko, Ralph's Corner Bar and the poignance of the Minne...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 10:39
Author Mary Casanova has spent 35 years looking at Rainy Lake and its iconic lift bridge to Canada out of her living room windows.
So it's not sur...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 07:57
Former St. Paul Pioneer Press outdoors reporter Chris Niskanen provides a playful, insightful, surprising guide to all things Minnesotan, the p...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 10:11
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Duluth author Margi Preus, whose new picture book, Storm's Coming! (2016, Minnesota Historical Society Pre...
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 09:31
The family affair that is author Lori Evert, National Geographic photographer Per Breiehagen and photogenic daughter Anja is back with a new advent...
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 08:15
Duluth's newly-minted poet laureate, Ellie Schoenfeld, reads from her work and talks poetry, pretension, community ... and the value of followin...
- Added: Dec 16, 2016
- Length: 09:14
