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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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
Nellie Frances was another woman like a lot of women in Minnesota.
Quiet and self-effacing, but active in her community and her church, it's not ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 17:39
Then-22 year old Natalie Warren and her friend Ann Raiho took a 2,000-mile journey by paddle from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay in 2011.
But ten years...
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 14:30
When Laura Sulentich Frederickson was a little girl, she felt sorry for her dad's birthday being so close to the winter solstice.
After all, kids ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 07:51
Craft beer exploded on the scene a few years back and Duluth proudly claimed it's place front and center.
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 13:28
Even if we weren't facing a winter indoors, staring at (or climbing) the same four walls, we'd probably appreciate Patrice Johnson's new Land...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 16:08
Gary Boelhower is Duluth's poet laureate, a long-time teacher of ethics ... and a grampa.
So it's no surprise that he's been spending a lot of t...
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 16:27
Chances are the two or three wolves who wandered over the ice from Minnesota or Canada to Isle Royale 60-some years ago were just looking for som...
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 15:18
While Indigenous children in Minnesota learn plenty of English language, most don't have a lot of chances to learn the languages of the ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 11:24
Mindy Greiling thought she knew quite a bit about mental illness.
After all, she'd minored in psychology both as an undergrad and in grad s...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 15:00
A common trope in fiction pits siblings against one another in some form; maybe they're vying for the attention of a parent, maybe they're both...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 16:32
Bea Ojakangas' mother always said you could never go wrong ordering soup.
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 15:54
Author Peter Geye talks about his most recent novel, Northernmost, the challenges of writing about Scandinavians ("I'm drawn to character...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 15:24
Margi Preus was disappointed when her books, Village of Scoundrels and The Littlest Voyageur, came out last spring at the same time the p...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 18:04
On this episode of MN Reads, KUMD's Chris Harwood talks with musician, songwriter, and producer BrownMark about his memoir, My Life in the Purple K...
- Added: Sep 29, 2020
- Length: 16:17
