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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Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Michael Schumacher, the author of The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul, published...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 13:26
Duluth musician turned author Adam Herman talks about his debut ("odd") novel Limbo, how he developed a tough enough skin to put hi...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 09:25
A collaborative project with author Brenda Child, artist Jonathan Thunder and language immersion teacher Gordon Jourdain produced a delightful tale...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 10:01
Darkness matters.
- Added: Jul 06, 2018
- Length: 12:34
Author Cary Griffith talks about his chronicle of 2007's Ham Lake fire and the process - and challenges - of documenting the most destructive wildf...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 12:18
MN Reads: "Searching for Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers" by Phyllis Root, photographed by Kelly Povo
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The story of how Searching for Minnesota's Native Wildflowers came to be written, starts, as the very best stories do, with a road trip. ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 08:36
If you can't actually have breakfast with James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas, this is the next best thing. ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 10:13
What do you do with another pile of beets form your CSA? If you are growing more tomatoes in your garden than you can cook into sauce or simply loo...
- Added: Jun 28, 2018
- Length: 09:50
The historical record is written and maintained, in many cases, by people who wanted their story told - and told in a certain way.
So when Susan B...
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 11:51
Minnesota is home to more endangered species than just the wolf.
Adam Regn Arvidson takes a look, not only at the plants and animals on the list, ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 13:25
Twin Cities author Daniel Lancaster and his family fell under the spell of John Beargrease over ten years ago when they began traveling north on va...
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 06:57
Lorin Robinson talks about this work of historical fiction, and the modern-day pitfalls of writing across cultural lines.
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 09:59
Bill Sullivan spent years as a roadie with The Replacements, traveling with the band at first in the "lemon jail," a late 70's Ford Econoline van n...
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 08:32
Mushrooms are a fruit?
Who knew?!
Authors Michael Karns and Lisa Golden Schroeder certainly did. They, with photographer Dennis Becker have prod...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 17:47
- Purchases: 1
Long before "catfishing," email scams or Ted Bundy entered the scene, Minnesota's Harry Hayward was cutting a swath - sometimes literally - through...
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 16:40
"Imagination is an active power in the world that shapes how people live their lives"
So does anthropology need to rethink itself as more closely ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 08:15
Kate Cavett is the kind of person who wants to read the book, not see the movie.
She says she likes stories "in their original versions," so it's ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 12:17
What stands out about a person when they're gone?
Carol Lafavor died in 2011, but her legacy is that of a pioneer in the places where gender, sexu...
- Added: Mar 10, 2018
- Length: 09:39
You can air-condition a movie theater with an artesian well.
Drive-in movies didn't lose their popularity; land just got too expensive.
These and...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 15:58
Cultures define themselves in many ways, frequently with reference to the natural world.
On the surface, it's hard to see that as a bad thing.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 10:38
