Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSamira Ahmed on ‘This Book Won't Burn’
Noor Khan is still reeling from the disintegration of her family when she stumbles across a library cart stacked with books in her new small-town hig…
2 years, 4 months ago
Talking Volumes: Leif Enger on ‘I Cheerfully Refuse’
Dystopian novels aren’t known for being hopeful.
But that’s exactly what Leif Enger brings to the genre with his new book, “I Cheerfully Refuse.”
The …
2 years, 4 months ago
Alua Arthur says facing death is the key to living well
What do you imagine your death will look like?
It’s not a morbid or depressing question to Alua Arthur. She’s a death doula, and she firmly believes …
2 years, 5 months ago
Lea Carpenter explores what happens when the business of spying gets personal
Who knew boring could be an asset?
In Lea Carpenter’s new spy novel, “Ilium,” we meet our young and restless unnamed narrator on a day when she’s urg…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lydia Millet writes a devotion to the species disappearing from our planet
Birds, bats, freshwater mussels and a small catfish. They all slipped away in 2023, among the 21 species declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildli…
2 years, 5 months ago
Minnesota’s best writers on Big Books and Bold Ideas
Big Book and Bold Ideas talks with authors from around the globe.
But our favorite moments come when host Kerri Miller sits down with Minnesota write…
2 years, 5 months ago
Author Jamie Figueroa on reclaiming an identity her mother tried to shed
Jamie Figueroa’s new memoir, “Mother Island” is stylistically unique. She combines prose and creative nonfiction, myth and short stories to explore h…
2 years, 5 months ago
Alexandra Fuller on ‘the braid, the spiral, the knot of grief’
Alexandra Fuller’s new memoir begins with the death of her 21-year-old son, Fi, and chronicles her attempts to grieve well in the searing aftermath o…
2 years, 6 months ago
Don Winslow’s final chapter as a novelist
Danny Ryan doesn’t see himself as ambitious — which is surprising, seeing as he’s both stolen and made millions. But in his mind, he’s just an averag…
2 years, 6 months ago
The feminists who built America
Americans overwhelmingly support gender equality. But not as many see themselves as feminists.
Elizabeth Cobbs says that’s because we don’t know our …
2 years, 6 months ago