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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MN writer Anika Fajardo's 2019 memoir, Magical Realism for Non-Believers, is about connecting with her father who had moved back to his home countr...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2022
  • Length: 12:37
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After almost 40 years in the used and rare book trade, Gary Goodman closed shop at St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater MN, and he’s just wri...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2022
  • Length: 12:52
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British Nigerian writer Lizzie Damilola Blackburn talks about learning to love one’s self in her novel Yinka Where is your Husband; Jonathan Evison...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
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We hear from Minnesota writer Marlon James, book 2 in his Dark Star Trilogy is now available, it’s called Moon Witch Spider King; Canadian writer H...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
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We hear from Minnesota writer Rachel Braugham--her new book is called Widowland, Tiffanie Drayton’s new book is called Black American Refugee, it’s...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Producer and staff librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with Bemidji State University professor Mike Herbert---his new book Leaving Campus pays tribute...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Mohsin Hamid is the author of the bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and his many essays, have been published in The New York ...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 11:00
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Jim Mans lives in Brainerd and he is the Minnesota author of a new book, 40 years in the making, it’s called Twiddle Yer Toes. It’s full of stories...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 13:47
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Deanna Raybourn is the author of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Lady Julia Grey series and the Veronica Speedwell books— historical ...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 09:59
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Gretchen Anthony is the Minnesota author of Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners and The Kids Are Gonna Ask and her newest novel is about a fami...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 14:11
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Staci Lola Drouillard is a Minnesota writer and a descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe. Her first book Walking the Old...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:56
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What We're Reading Producer & Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with MN children's book writer Elizabeth Barrett (Red Lake Ojibwe). Her book is...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 07:49
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Grand Rapids Area Library Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa gives us the scoop on new and noteworthy children's books for What We're Reading. Tracy ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 10:10
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Angela Tedesco is a farmer who has recently retired after 17 years of running one of the first community supported agriculture farms in central Iow...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 12:27
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Grand Rapids Area Library Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa reviews and recommends these new children's books: Forever Cousins, by Laurel Goodl...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 07:26
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Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Reservation and a MN award winning author, poet and playwright, and community arts activist....

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 10:01
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John Owens is a freelance illustrator and teaches at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the picture book One Summer Up North; his new...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 10:46
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On this next installment of What We're Reading we get to hear voices from our community of readers. Jane Freeman, Dan G., Sandy Hennum, and Melissa...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 11:00
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Grand Rapids Area Library Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa gives us the scoop on new and noteworthy children's books for What We're Reading. Toda...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 10:41
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Grand Rapids Area Library Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa gives us the scoop on new and noteworthy children's books for What We're Reading. Today'...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 08:28