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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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
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
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
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
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
We'll hear from Paula Hawkins, Leila Slimani, Freya Sampson, and Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa.
- Added: Nov 21, 2021
- Length: 59:55
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
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
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
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
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
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
Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa Talks New Books!
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 15:24
Leila Slimani's New Novel: In the Country of Others
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 11:26
Paula Hawkins' New Thriller: A Slow Fire Burning
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 10:28
Freya Sampson's new novel: The Last Chance Library
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 08:37
You’ll hear from authors Megan Abbott, Grady Hendrix, Maggie Smith, Jeffrey Kluger, and also Children’s Librarian Tracy Kampa will tell us about so...
- Added: Aug 29, 2021
- Length: 59:59
Steven Rowley is the author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor. His new novel is a a warm and deeply funny story about a once-famous gay sitcom...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
A hilariously quirky novel that is equal parts murder mystery, rom-com, and a celebration of mothers and daughters as well as a deep dive into Chin...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 09:13
Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer Sarah Pinsker. Her new novel is called "We Are Satellites." It's about
one family and the technol...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 10:47