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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Minnesota writer Marcie Rendon’s engaging thriller “Where They Last Saw Her” highlights community and the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous...
- Added: Sep 04, 2024
- Length: 09:20
Minnesota musicians Chan Poling and Lucy Michell team up on a children’s picture book, "The Moons," about coping with loneliness and making new fri...
- Added: Aug 14, 2024
- Length: 11:16
Now 40 years since the release of the iconic “Born in the U.S.A.” album, Steven Hyden’s book provides insight into the artist and the era.
- Added: Aug 05, 2024
- Length: 13:18
New research shows that kids aren’t reading for fun as much as they used to. Local educators Tracy Kampa and Kathrina O’Connell talk about why and ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2024
- Length: 12:24
Anton Treuer, the acclaimed Bemidji author and Ojibwe professor’s debut novel is part coming-of-age, part thriller, set in Nigigoonsiminikaaning Fi...
- Added: Jul 11, 2024
- Length: 12:40
Best-selling writer Mark Greaney focuses on artificial intelligence in his latest Gray Man thriller “The Chaos Agent.”
- Added: Jun 28, 2024
- Length: 10:20
Cornelia Maude Spelman’s new book helps parents show their children that it is not hard to see what is true and what is not.
- Added: Jun 28, 2024
- Length: 10:38
Leif Enger’s new novel “I Cheerfully Refuse” takes us on a storied journey through a dystopic, not-too distant America, but is full of hope and bea...
- Added: Jun 25, 2024
- Length: 26:57
New books from authors Nicola Davies, Kate DiCamillo and Anna Rose Johnson are among the latest books recommended by Tracy Kampa, children’s librar...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 10:30
Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa reviews and recommends new children's books of interest for "What We're Reading."
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 10:01
Writer Robert Saxton turns bedtime stories into his debut novel of suspense, adventure, and wilderness awareness.
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 13:40
Minnesota writer Sue Leaf shares personal stories along with the natural history and effects of climate change on Lake Superior’s South Shore.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 27, 2024
- Length: 11:42
- Purchases: 1
Susan Hawkinson’s new book “The Adventures of Annie McCallum” enjoyed by children and adults.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 10:20
Simon Hargreaves is a writer living in Minnesota. But before that, he lived in California, went to school for photography, and worked in cinema and...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 11:18
Duluth writer Dianna Hunter’s new environmental mystery highlights real-life issues of copper-nickel mining and the importance of local news reporting
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 12:31
The 2024 American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards did not disappoint children’s librarian Tracy Kampa (much).
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 11:14
Emma Törzs talks about how the 'enforced coziness' of Minnesota winters helps her write and the rules of magic in her debut novel "Ink Blood Sister...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 10:13
In a recent What We’re Reading interview, DiCamillo talked with Grand Rapids Area Library children’s librarian Tracy Kampa about writing, the impor...
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 10:54
“My favorite hour of the year.” Children’s librarian Tracy Kampa is back to celebrate another year of the Newbery, Caldecott and other American Lib...
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 08:03
Writer Joe Prosit shares his experience with “do-it-yourself” publishing and reveals his new cyberpunk sci-fi trilogy called “From Order."
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 10:43
