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 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
Wisconsin's poet laureate joins us this morning to read, among other things, the titular poem of Apprenticed to Justice
- Added: Dec 02, 2016
- Length: 11:38
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
