What We're Reading
Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.
What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Nora Lester Murad is a writer, educator, and activist. Born and raised in a Jewish-American family, she later married a Muslim-Palestinian and rais...
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 10:33
Ty Yule describes himself in his memoir Chemically Enhancd Butch as “a scruffy, middle-aged, retired queer cult leader” and “a happy husband and a ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 14:54
Shannon Gibney's "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight" is a light-hearted story for everyone, but has a special message for dias...
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 12:24
Award-winning and best-selling writer Jennifer Ackerman returns with a fascinating scientific investigation into owls.
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 14:04
Writer Barry Babcock credits the Bonga family, descendants of an African slave, as being an important part of Northern Minnesota's history.
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 06:21
A.R. Frederiksen's short stories are atmospheric with lots of thrills and chills.
A.R. Frederiksen is a writer from Denmark and former exchange st...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 09:05
Professor Jason Fitger returns and misadventures abound in Julie Schumacher's new novel "The English Experience."
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 10:11
On the latest installment of What We're Reading, Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa reviewed new picture and middle-grade b...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 10:23
"Rez Ball" is based on writer Byron Graves' adolescence while growing up and playing basketball on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 13:20
"The Taken Ones" has detectives searching for connections between a woman found buried alive and two girls who vanished decades ago in a small Minn...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 12:00
Duluth writer John Teschner's new thriller is a timely story about a fight over ancestral land in Hawaii.
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 10:55
In Patty Wetterlings new book, "Dear Jacob: A Mother’s Journey of Hope", we get a detailed account of the decades-long investigation to bring Jacob...
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 13:22
Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa reviews and recommends new children's books of interest for "What We're Reading."
- Added: Oct 24, 2023
- Length: 10:33
“Power & Light” marks novelist Will Weaver’s return to the themes of “Red Earth, White Earth” and “Sweet Land.”
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 09:56
Linda LeGarde Grover is a Minnesota writer and Minnesota Book Award winner, a professor emerita at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and a member...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 10:02
Matthew Batt’s new book “The Last Supper Club” takes us behind the scenes of restaurants and waiting tables.
- Added: Nov 28, 2023
- Length: 11:45
On the latest installment of What We're Reading, Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa reviewed two new picture books, a graph...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 10:01
Minnesota writer and music critic Nate Patrin examines the history of pop songs in films in his new book "The Needle and the Lens."
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 11:09
Photographer Travis Novitsky and astrophysicist Annette S. Lee collaborate on a book celebrating the science of and our connections to the northern...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 12:00
New books from authors Karen Berger, Candace Fleming, and Ellen Oh are among the latest books recommended by Grand Rapids Area Library children’s l...
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 10:19
