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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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
We visit with Jim Perlman, one of the editors of a new poetry collection titled, Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior, published by Holy Cow ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 17, 2015
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 1
We visit with editor, journalist and author Catherine Madison, whose latest book, The War Came Home with Him: A Daughter's Memoir has just been pub...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 07:49
- Purchases: 2
Twelve-year-old Margaret's mother disapproves of everything she does (and doesn't) do, before she even does (or doesn't) do it. Keeping her toddle...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Duluthian Marie Zhuikov writes "eco-mystic romance novels for new adults," set right here at home.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 09:36
- Purchases: 1
What makes a town? A railroad line? A post office?
How did Minnesota's lost towns become lost ... and could our wired society - and the ability ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 08:35
- Purchases: 1
We talk with Kristin Eggerling, author of Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson (2014, Fulcrum Publishing), about the great wilderness edu...
- Added: Aug 13, 2015
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 2
We talk with David Kess, author of "More Than Just Ore: The Era That Really Made Ely," published in 2014 by the Ely-Winton Historical Society. Not...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 06, 2015
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 1
For the longest time, Ann Glumac wrote poetry as a way of capturing a moment or an experience.
Then she allowed herself to entertain a new idea: w...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 2
It was just like everyday silver or everyday dishes; it wasn't something special you hauled out for company.
That's what Peggy Trojan saw growing ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:54
- Purchases: 1
