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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Margi Preus talks about the "reverse strip tease" of mystery writing and why she never gets more confident as a writer.
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 12:26
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Courtney Yasmineh, the author of A Girl Called Sidney: The Coldest Place, published in 2017 by Gibson Hous...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 09:49
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Quinton Skinner, the author of Odd One Out, published in 2017 by Prospect Park Books. This novel, his thi...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 08:32
Eric Dregni's Let's Go Fishing is the perfect antidote for the I-can't-believe-it's-over-summertime blues.
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 09:12
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: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 07:18
Given the choice between a cash prize for their annual contest and a chance to get published, the Lake Superior Writers voted back in 2016 to get p...
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 07:20
Lois Rafferty has spoken, written and taught about issues of grief and loss for years.
But it wasn't until she wrote Carnie's Child that she learne...
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 11:18
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Lorin R. Robinson, the author of Tales From The Warming published in 2017 by Open Books.
Combining scient...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 12:32
- Purchases: 1
Many Minnesotans have fond memories of traveling for a weekend at the lake. Along with that trip to the lake came unique stories that have been pas...
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 08:24
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Douglas Wood, the author of "Deep Woods, Wild Waters: A Memoir," published in 2017 by University of Minnes...
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 11:16
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
