What We're Reading

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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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.


213 Pieces

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Results from the First Annual KAXE/KBXE Book Awards and and interview with the Reader's Choice Award, Amy Thielen.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 26:00
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Producer Tammy Bobrowsky interviews journalist Marc Perrusquia, author of A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview with Richard Powers on his new book "The Overstory."

  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 11:20
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Review of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, reader/listener recommendations, and another installment of Show Me Your Shelf with Rose and Will...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 08:33
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Interview with Scottish author Gail Honeyman. Her debut, highly-acclaimed novel is "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine."

  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 10:13
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We talk about James Patterson & Bill Clinton's "The President is Missing," Jill Santopolo's "The Light We Lost," Richard Ratay's "Don't Make Me Pul...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:16
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Interviews with Deborah Harkness, Ellen Keith, and Nathaniel Philbrick, audio excerpt of Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay, and book conversation with ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Author interviews: Lisa Unger on Under My Skin, tammy lynne stoner on Sugar Land, Sarah St. Vincent on Ways to Hide in Winter, Gabrielle Moss on Pa...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:47
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KAXE/KBXE music director Kari Hedlund, Centerstage MN host and producer Brett Carter, and What We're Reading's Tammy Bobrowsky discuss the book Let...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:46
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Book discussions and interviews on: Jill Lepore's These Truths: A history of the United States (2:20); Lake Agassiz Regional Library's new Native A...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:58
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Featuring the books: The Paragon Hotel, by Lindsay Faye, The Gryphon Chronicles, by E.G. Foley, Never Home Alone, by Rob Dunn, and Barkskins, by An...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:50
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Interviews with Joseph Finder, his new thriller is called Judgment, author Sophie Hannah, "How to Hold a Grudge: from resentment to contentment—the...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2019
  • Length: 59:53
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Anissa Gray's "The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls," "Early Riser" by Jasper Fforde, Pam Jenoff's new historical novel, "The Lost Girls...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:01
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Featuring Erin Lynn Marsh, a poet from Bemidji, whose first book of poetry, "Disability Isn't Sexy" was recently published! Also featuring a great ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:53
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We'll hear from Bev Thomas, her new book is a thriller, "A Good Enough Mother".. Pauli Meinecke from Harmony Natural Foods Coop in Bemidji will giv...

  • Added: May 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:04
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Interviews: Freedom's Detective, by Charles Lane; The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner, Words No Bars Can Hold, by Deborah Appleman; Reviews: Robert Ca...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 59:51
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E.R. Ramzipoor's The Ventriloquists; Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day; Brad Meltzer children’s book series Ordinary People Change the World, hi...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
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Writer E.R. Ramzipoor's new novel of historical fiction takes place in Nazi occupied Belgium where a gang of ragtag journalists and resistence figh...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 10:41
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In a not-too distant time, where public gatherings are illegal, making concerts impossible, two women are willing to break the law for their love o...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 13:14