Where Readers Meet Writers. Conversations on books and ideas, Fridays at 11 a.m.
The feminists who built America
April 12, 2024
00:54:02
Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?
April 5, 2024
00:51:30
Kao Kalia Yang channels her mother in the memoir ‘Where Rivers Part’
March 29, 2024
00:54:12
What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it
March 22, 2024
00:48:28
How memory works
March 15, 2024
01:04:10
Tommy Orange’s new ‘Wandering Stars’ traces a long trail of trauma and belonging
March 8, 2024
00:49:17
A prescription to modernize public health
March 1, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson on 'Democracy Awakening'
Feb. 23, 2024
00:51:20
Memorable moments with women of faith
Feb. 16, 2024
00:52:14
Family lore becomes rich historical fiction in 'The Storm We Made'
Feb. 9, 2024
How women of the CIA changed history
Feb. 2, 2024
00:53:31
Tracy K. Smith delivers a plea for the American soul
Jan. 26, 2024
Can higher education be saved from itself?
Jan. 19, 2024
00:58:18
The inside story of the government’s search for alien life
Jan. 12, 2024
Three historians and authors reflect on this American moment
Jan. 5, 2024
00:52:00
How a pastor's faith survived 'Beautiful and Terrible Things'
Dec. 29, 2023
00:51:15
Can a 5,000-mile journey help a mother and son survive their differences?
Dec. 22, 2023
00:52:15
Poet Major Jackson on writing poetry that connects
Dec. 15, 2023
01:11:11
Rethinking roads
Dec. 8, 2023
00:49:05
Decoding the 'familect'
Dec. 7, 2023
00:48:09
Safiya Sinclair liberates herself in 'How to Say Babylon'
Dec. 1, 2023
00:51:16
Kerri Miller and two book lovers share their favorite books of 2023
00:47:52
Tour the galaxy with the 'Bad Astronomer'
Nov. 17, 2023
00:51:45
Talking Volumes: Margaret Renkl on 'The Comfort of Crows'
Nov. 10, 2023
01:41:23
A hard look at gun violence in 'The Bodies Keep Coming'
Nov. 3, 2023
00:51:00
Talking Volumes: Viet Thanh Nguyen on being 'A Man of Two Faces'
Oct. 27, 2023
01:34:13
'Land of Milk and Honey' depicts a future without the pleasure of food
Oct. 20, 2023
00:48:00
Talking Volumes: Ann Patchett on 'Tom Lake'
Oct. 6, 2023
01:50:59
A young girl runs from Jamestown in Lauren Groff's new book, 'The Vaster Wilds'
Sept. 29, 2023
Talking Volumes: Abraham Verghese on 'Covenant of Water'
Sept. 22, 2023
01:44:09
Healing from trauma in the northern Wisconsin woods
Sept. 15, 2023
00:48:30
Minnesota novelist Julie Schumacher on 'The English Experience'
Sept. 8, 2023
00:54:52
Nostalgia becomes a weapon in the sci-fi thriller 'Prophet'
Sept. 1, 2023
00:56:26
Novel asks: ‘What if your two favorite people hate each other with a passion?’
Aug. 18, 2023
00:55:26
Christian Cooper on what it means to be a Black man in the natural world
Aug. 10, 2023
00:56:18
Minnesota's supper clubs set the table for a delicious family drama
Aug. 4, 2023
Luis Urrea's new novel is inspired by his mother's wartime experiences
July 28, 2023
00:54:29
In 'Shy,' a troubled teenage boy gets a last chance
July 21, 2023
01:01:23
'Of White Ashes' brings the WWII Japanese-American experience to life
July 14, 2023
00:51:46
Rachel Louise Snyder's memoir is as beautifully complex as her life.
July 7, 2023
01:06:00
A historical swashbuckler from author David Grann
June 30, 2023
00:53:22
Women bootleggers in the time of Prohibition
June 23, 2023
What it really means to be all-American
June 9, 2023
00:57:55
Minnesota writer William Kent Krueger on the importance of place
June 2, 2023
01:26:27
From the archives: William Kent Krueger on 'Lightning Strike'
May 30, 2023
00:52:40
Journalist Jeff Sharlet on America's slow civil war
May 26, 2023
Drew Brockington takes fans into 'meowter' space at Talking Volumes
May 19, 2023
01:03:22
From the archives: 'CatStronauts' author Drew Brockington blasts off into fun
May 16, 2023
00:31:16
'Symphony of Secrets' is an ode to music stolen and composers erased
May 12, 2023
00:57:13
How dogs become themselves and other wonders of puppyhood
May 5, 2023
00:53:03
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