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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Joy and tears were both a part of the experience for author Staci Lola Drouillard in writing the 2022 release Seven Aunts published by the Universi...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 08:32
KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with Beth Dooley, a Minneapolis-based chef and columnist who is the author of The Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 12:42
KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with Ronda Snow, the author of a new children's book, The Little People and the Water of Life that will be published in...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 10:38
KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with writer and journalist Martin Keller about The Space Pen Club: Close Encounters of the 5th Kind -- UFO Disclosure, ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 13:15
Linda LeGarde Grover has turned her hand to telling some old stories in her latest book, Gichigami Hearts
Stories and Histories from Misaabekong: ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 07:52
A character readers may remember from Thomas Peacock's Beginnings and The Tao of Nookomis has penned his own story.
Author and publisher Thomas P...
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 13:42
KUMD's Chris Harwood speaks with Eric Dregni, author of "For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness," published in 2021...
- Added: Jun 22, 2021
- Length: 17:37
Liz Granholm heard many stories about Rabbit and Otter's ricing trip when she was growing up.
She took different lessons from each telling: the ne...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 11:32
Ranae Hanson was already deeply committed to combating climate change when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
Then suddenly everything made s...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 19:35
Journalists can get in a lot of trouble following their curiosity down the rabbit hole.
And they can also have a lot of fun.
Just ask Todd Melby,...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 13:07
James Bird kind of likes to right - or write - past wrongs.
When the director/screenwriter (We Are Boats, Honeyglue) decided to follow a longtime ...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 18:36
KUMD's Chris Harwood talks with Klecko, baker and award-winning author, about his latest book, Lincolnland, published in 2021 by Paris Morning Publ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 13:59
Sam Zimmerman is taking a class to re-learn his language, Ojibwemowin.
He laughs his efforts are making his ancestors' ears bleed, but if Sam's an...
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 15:55
One look at the whimsical cover illlustration for Kao Kalia Yang's Yang Warriors, and you're pretty sure what it's going to be about: a band of plu...
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 16:17
Mary Casanova knew that there was talent and artistry - and mental illness - in her gene pool.
So in her third Rainy Lake historical novel, she sp...
- Added: Apr 28, 2021
- Length: 11:55
Clare Cooley has lived through sexual assault, the suicide of a family member and the drug addiction of another.
But all the way back to a trouble...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 16:57
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies is a book that was written first for Ojibwe speakers - not even those fluent in ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 12:07
Historian Brenda Child has been on a mission since she read Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) by Vine Deloria Jr. and Dee Brown...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 15:54
