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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Bob King is a photographer by day in his job at the Duluth News Tribune, so perhaps it came as a bit of a surprise when he was head-hunted to write...
- Added: Dec 02, 2016
- Length: 07:58
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do
if bees are few.
~ Emily Dickinson...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 09:18
The story of Canada's most decorated Native soldier for bravery (and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history) is all at onc...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 12:04
Linda LeGarde Grover's new collection of poetry, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives, is not a collection of "pretty poems."
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 07:16
Eve and Gary Wallinga share their guide to the best waterfalls of Minnesota's North Shore, including ratings on hike difficulty, trail quality, th...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 08:09
Duluth poet Julie Gard reads work from her NEMBA-nominated poetry collection Home Studies.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 06:11
You can take the ranger out of the Iron Range ... but you can't take the Iron Range out of the ranger.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 05:52
Rudy Senarighi's love of fishing can be traced back to two incidents.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Ava Finch is a character in her own right.
And she's written a book called "Fishing with RayAnne," the story of a thirty-something former pro angl...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 08:33
Linda Hatinen sets a gripping historical romance in the Esko of one hundred years ago.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 06:28
The internet age means almost anyone can be a genealogist but memoirist Cathy LaForge Tonkin says stories are more than names and dates.
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- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 08:54
Our guest is Ann M Lewis. Her book Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes [Wisconsin Historical Society Press] was nominated for a ...
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- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 13:16
- Purchases: 1
Printmaker Cecilia Lieder thinks of herself as a storyteller ... but it was only recently she decided to try her hand at writing them down. The re...
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 07:02
Our guest is Francine Sterle. Her book of poetry, What Thread? [Red Dragonfly Press], was nominated for a 2016 NEMBA award in the Poetry category.
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- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 07:32
- Purchases: 1
Our guest is Tera Freese. Her book of poetry, Remind Me That I'm Wild [The Master Key Press], with illustrations by Lindy Kehoe, was nominated for...
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- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 1
Author Elliot Foster on the challenge of making the ubiquitous Minnesota "cabin" experience both recognizable ... and unique.
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 05:47
Tim Jollymore's dad worked for the railroad when he was growing up in Proctor.
But it wasn't until he took a work-study position as a UMD student ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 10:54
A writing class with a personal hero and a lovable Lab sparked this first - but not last - children's book about Norman.
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- Added: Jul 15, 2016
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
You may not be a "journal-er" yourself ... but Kevin Proescholdt's "Glimpses of Wilderness" may just inspire you.
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- Added: Jul 15, 2016
- Length: 09:07
- Purchases: 1
This summer, Minnesota Reads is bringing you books about the Northland, from the Northland and by Northland authors. The Northeastern Minnesota Bo...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2016
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 1
