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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David Backes was a college student on the verge of dropping out until he found the books of Sigurd Olson.
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 08:45
Mary Casanova on collaboration, breaking the rules, and the power of blueberry pancakes.
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 08:17
Author and UMD Theater professor Tom Isbell on reading, writing and the Faithful Reader.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 07:39
Michael McConnell and his husband of 44 years, Jack Baker, were gay-married when gay-married wasn't cool - or even legal. But was it? How it's po...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 10:46
Writing, like many other creative pursuits, isn't likely to make you rich. In fact, you'd be lucky if you could buy the odd sack of groceries now ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2016
- Length: 07:15
MN Reads visits with journalist, columnist, and author Rick Shefchik about his newest book, "Everybody's Heard About the Bird: The True Story of 19...
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 10:00
A very special Christmas Eve episode of MN Reads with Kevin Kling: how to survive the holidays with family and why the mitten is always big enough.
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 07:12
Anyone can come up with a quick menu for winter or summer ... but what's the right meal for "scorch," "dusk," "frost" or "thaw"?
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 06:15
The back-of-the-jacket blurb says "Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing ... his life ... is revealed in series of hilarious ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 06:04
"Through dark December solstice nights
We learn to love and seek the light
Where Christmas light abounds
And all around is found ......
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 09:17
In a perfect world, "The Reindeer Wish" would be sold with a few sets of earplugs.
- Added: Nov 26, 2015
- Length: 07:30
"Tracks in the Wild," a Minnesota Book Award winner in 1994, has been reissued by the University of Minnesota Press.
Turns out, it's a perfect com...
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 07:37
The controversy, the complexity and what's been overlooked; Craig Packer talks people and lions and where the real danger is.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 09:38
""Our people choose to protect our land. Our country was the first government in the world to create a national park. I’m proud of us. One of my fa...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 08:03
What could possibly be more interesting than reading a book about something called "the vampire squid from hell"? A book called, variously, "part ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2015
- Length: 07:38
You might think the science-deniers are something new, but not that long ago in Minnesota, the folks that believed in the authenticity of the Kensi...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 09:46
Musician, singer, songwriter, band member...
Perennial Minnesota favorite Teague Alexy adds "author" to his resume with the release of "The New...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 10:01
When author Jane St. Anthony was a girl, a man in her neighborhood killed himself.
His wife and daughter moved away, but what St. Anthony remembe...
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 09:29
When "they" said, "Write what you know," Margi Preus wasn't listening.
The Duluth author's newest book, "The Bamboo Sword" takes place temporally,...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 09:47
Duluth Mayor Don Ness talks the micro and macro view ... unearned advantages ... and his transition from Donny the Kid Councilor to Don Ness, mayor...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 13:31
