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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Growing up in Milwaukee, Derek Nicholas wasn't really plugged into either his cultural heritage or the great outdoors.
But when he arrived in rura...
- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 09:39
Minnesotans can read Chad Montrie's article “'In That Very Northern City'”: Recovering a Forgotten Struggle for Racial Integration in Duluth" i...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
Writer, radio personality, podcaster and guy-with-depression John Moe talks about finding what works for you in addition to meds and therapy (dog...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 17:29
Jeffrey Briggs is a big fan of waterfronts. From the frigid waters of Puget Sound to the frigid waters of Lake Superior's North Shore, he's writt...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 12:53
Kao Kalia Yang's book The Shared Room begins as what she calls "a love letter" to the 6-year-old who drowned three years ago at the Lake Elmo Par...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 12:20
Author Carolyn Holmbrook is our guest this morning, talking about her book Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify coming out at the perfect time, ...
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 17:26
Author Sue Leaf on how her writing group keeps her honest, on the unexpected appearance of John Beargrease Sr. in her story (he was a mail carrie...
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 15:59
Forty percent of people who developed bowel obstructions died of them, up until the 1960s.
Now it's less than four percent.
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 14:48
"You can't be what you don't see."
That's why Anthony Scott and Dr. Chaunda Scott are so dedicated to continuing their father's work. Walter Scott...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 12:53
If you knew a professional "fisherwoman" ("fisherperson") who became an accidental host of a fishing show on public television, had a fixer-upper h...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 09:38
Scott Carpenter teaches French literature, literary theory, and cross-cultural studies at Carleton College in Northfield.
So when i...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 13:50
When Tom and Elizabeth Peacock started Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing, one of their goals was to create Native children's books for...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 07:49
What started last year as a 100-day challenge and then a way to reach out to friends on social media has become physician-turned-shamanic-h...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 16:44
Deborah Appleman loves the quote from Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 14:36
Chuck Dayton has been taking pictures of loon families on his little lake near Ely for many of the 63 years he's been spending summers t...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 08:58
Folks have been thinkng a lot about the second World War these days, remembering how the country came together with a common goal during a fr...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 13:16
Playing the things-could-always-be-worse game isn't reliably useful to put things in perspective.
But still, 102 years ago, Duluthians were coping...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 16:08
Most of the time, we don't talk about books that haven't been published yet on MN Reads, much less books that haven't even been written.
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 13:20
Duluth author Margi Preus joins us to talk about her book launch. Once a shindig as befits the launch of two books at once, it's become a virtual e...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 14:13