Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

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May 24, 2024 11:00 AM

Lea Carpenter explores what happens when the business of spying gets personal

Lea Carpenter’s latest spy novel unfolds as a last-chance operation against a high-value target led by a naïve and inexperienced recruit.

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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May 17, 2024 2:12 PM

Lydia Millet writes a devotion to the species disappearing from our planet

Lydia Millet’s “We Loved It All” is a lush lament to the natural world slipping through our fingers and a call to save what we still can.

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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May 10, 2024 12:58 PM

Minnesota’s best writers on Big Books and Bold Ideas

Big Books and Bold Ideas takes a look back at conversations with some of Minnesota’s most notable authors.

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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May 3, 2024 11:00 AM

Author Jamie Figueroa on reclaiming an identity her mother tried to shed

Jamie Figueroa reclaims her identity as a Puerto Rican in her new memoir, “Mother Island.”

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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April 26, 2024 11:00 AM

Alexandra Fuller on ‘the braid, the spiral, the knot of grief’

In her new memoir, “Fi,” Alexandra Fuller charts a journey through grief after the sudden death of her 21-year-old son.

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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April 19, 2024 11:00 AM

Don Winslow’s final chapter as a novelist

Don Winslow draws his Danny Ryan trilogy — and his writing career — to a close with his new novel, “City in Ruins.”

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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April 12, 2024 11:00 AM

The feminists who built America

Many of their names are unknown, but early American feminists fought hard for the freedoms that are cornerstones to democracy. This week on Big Books and Bold Ideas, historian Elizabeth Cobbs and our new series, “Big Books, Bold Americans.”

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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April 5, 2024 11:00 AM

Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?

In her new novel, “Village Weavers,” author Myriam J. A. Chancy draws on her Haitian roots to share a story about friendship, family and what can stitch us back together after we are ripped apart.

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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March 29, 2024 11:00 AM

Kao Kalia Yang channels her mother in the memoir ‘Where Rivers Part’

Hmong author Kao Kalia Yang concludes her family trilogy by sharing her mother’s remarkable story in the new memoir, “Where Rivers Part.”

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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March 22, 2024 1:14 PM

What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it

Journalist Susan Casey descended to some of the deepest parts of the ocean in tiny submersibles while researching her new book, “The Underworld.” What she saw is astounding.

by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

Lea Carpenter explores what happens when the business of spying gets personal

Lydia Millet writes a devotion to the species disappearing from our planet

Minnesota’s best writers on Big Books and Bold Ideas

Author Jamie Figueroa on reclaiming an identity her mother tried to shed

Alexandra Fuller on ‘the braid, the spiral, the knot of grief’

Don Winslow’s final chapter as a novelist

The feminists who built America

Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?

Kao Kalia Yang channels her mother in the memoir ‘Where Rivers Part’

What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it

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