Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
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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 writers to talk about story, craft and how calling this state home influences both.
This week, we took a look back at some conversations with notable Minnesota authors, including Shannon Gibney, who just won her third Minnesota Book Award, Hmong writer Kao Kalia Yang and not-ashamed-to-be-a-mystery-writer William Kent Krueger.
How women of the CIA changed history
Tracy K. Smith delivers a plea for the American soul
Can higher education be saved from itself?
The inside story of the government’s search for alien life
Three historians and authors reflect on this American moment
How a pastor's faith survived 'Beautiful and Terrible Things'
Can a 5,000-mile journey help a mother and son survive their differences?
Poet Major Jackson on writing poetry that connects
Rethinking roads
Decoding the 'familect'
Safiya Sinclair liberates herself in 'How to Say Babylon'
Kerri Miller and two book lovers share their favorite books of 2023
Tour the galaxy with the 'Bad Astronomer'
Talking Volumes: Margaret Renkl on 'The Comfort of Crows'
A hard look at gun violence in 'The Bodies Keep Coming'
Talking Volumes: Viet Thanh Nguyen on being 'A Man of Two Faces'
'Land of Milk and Honey' depicts a future without the pleasure of food
Talking Volumes: Ann Patchett on 'Tom Lake'
A young girl runs from Jamestown in Lauren Groff's new book, 'The Vaster Wilds'
Talking Volumes: Abraham Verghese on 'Covenant of Water'
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