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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  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 08:37

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 10:28

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 11:26

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 15:24
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Anthony Doerr is the author of 6 books including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. His new novel is a masterpiece;...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 13:41
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Gwen Westerman is a writer, poet and artist. She teaches literature and writing at Minnesota State University Mankato. And she’s a member of the Si...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 13:28
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Tracy Kampa recommends: Red, White, and Whole, by Rajani LaRocca While I Was Away, by Waka T. Brown Mel Fell, by Corey R. Tabor It Fell from the S...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 13:03
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What do you get when you mix a revenge plot, but everyone is witches? And two of them fall for each other? You get Payback's a Witch, a sizzling, w...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 10:17
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In 2018 historian and writer Nathaniel Philbrick, his wife Melissa, and their dog Dora took off on a road trip to trace George Washington’s route a...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 11:48
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Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest . She’s the award-winning author of three novels and her latest one is The Book of Fo...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 11:41
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We'll hear from Paula Hawkins, Leila Slimani, Freya Sampson, and Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:55
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We hear from writer Ruth Ozeki-- her new novel is called The Book of Form and Emptiness. Historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s new travel memoir is Trave...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Today we’ll hear about an #OwnVoices psychological thriller from newcomer Amanda Jayatissa; Canadian writer Lecia Cornwall has a new work of histor...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s ir...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 18:16
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Amanda Jayatissa grew up in Sri Lanka, attended college in California, and lived in the UK before moving back to Sri Lanka. She works as a corporat...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 12:53
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Lecia Cornwall is the acclaimed Canadian author of 15 historical romance novels. Her newest story is a WWI-set historical fiction about a female do...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 08:06
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Time now to check in again with Tracy Kampa. She is the Children's Librarian at the Grand Rapids Area Library. Tracy is also our Children’s Books C...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 11:23
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On today’s show…You ever have the urge to escape? To get in your car and just drive and keep on driving? That’s what Phoebe Fox’s main character di...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:57
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A top 10 countdown of our favorite WWR authors and interviews, best children's books of the year, and looking towards 2022.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
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Featuring writers Seressia Glass, Naomi Krupitsky, Kevin Birmingham and Jean Chen Ho. Also Children's Book contributor, Tracy Kampa.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00