MN Reads
Series produced by WDSE

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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The protagonist in Konnie Ellis's book Picnic in Venice "finds her way in the world through art."
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 13:33
Our guest this morning is Mark Munger, and he's written the final chapter in his Finnish American trilogy, Kotimaa: Homeland.
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 10:42
On MN Reads, KUMD's Chris Harwood talks with writer Martin Keller and photographer Greg Helgeson about Hijinx and Hearsay: Scenester Stories from M...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 12:30
"An embarassment of riches."
That's what retired MNHS Press editor Marilyn Ziebarth and exhibit curator Brian Horrigan had to wade through when th...
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 11:56
Curiosity, collaboration, the language we all speak - artist and author Tara Sweeney talks about it all.
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 15:11
What so many of the people I interviewed longed for - what I long for - is the ability to return to the place where our ancestors lived and be welc...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 17:57
MN Reads: "The Thunder Before the Storm: The Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt" as told to Jon Lurie
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"Not-Indian" author and journalist Jon Lurie talks about the evolution of his relationship with activist and American Indian Movement (AIM) co-foun...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 15:14
Cheryl Minnema's children's books start with a fond memory, one of many plucked from her childhood, growing up in a traditional household and part ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2019
- Length: 12:43
Jack El-Hai's non-fiction book, The Lost Brothers, tells the harrowing story of three little boys, ages 8, 6 and 4, who went to the park a few bloc...
- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 14:32
A forgotten grocery-store box simply labeled "Fitz" was the genesis for Michael Schumacher's The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Account...
- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 12:31
You might expect the partnership of Chan Poling (The Suburbs, The New Standards) and Lucy Michell (Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles) to produ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 10:35
Author John Coy thinks it's pretty cool that there's only one waterfall on the Mississippi, and that it actually moved 15 miles upstream several th...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 08:30
- Purchases: 1
There's only one way people arrive here on this planet, observed an contributor to the book of What God is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage an...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 15:43
It's true: in space, no one can hear you scream.
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 20:40
Eugenie Anderson and Coya Knutson had a lot in common. They were born three years apart (1909 and 1912), they both entered Minnesota politics in ...
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- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
Authors aren't performers like actors or musicians, but they seem to get roped into public appearances to read their work pretty regularly.
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 11:31
New and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community have had their voices heard via the Queer Voices reading series since 1993. ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 12:37
It only took two visits to Hawk Ridge to inspire poet Phil Fitzpatrick's love letter to raptors, the Ridge, and the staff and volunteers who make i...
- Added: Oct 17, 2019
- Length: 11:09
Several well-known poets, including Duluth's poet laureate, will join some lesser-known poets and musicians Sunday afternoon for Poets on the Water...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 1
DNA tests are answering a lot of questions for some people ... and creating new questions for others.
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- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 1