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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
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Where readers meet writers, Fridays at 11 a.m. Listen live or stream later on your favorite podcast app.

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Friday Roundtable: Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas

A journalist, lawyer and scholar reflect on the recent shootings across the United States.

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Special coverage: The Philando Castile shooting

In the wake of the shooting of Philando Castile, MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with several guests about the developing situation.
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Can we take the crazy out of politics?

The cover story of The Atlantic asks how and when American politics went insane. Our guests and callers offer ideas for how to fix it.

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The tricky transition from college to workplace

Career counselor Amy Lindgren offers advice on avoiding common pitfalls in your first big job after graduation.
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The key to sustainable travel

The key to sustainable travel

"We don't want travel that conquers a destination, we want to enhance that destination," said Costas Christ, an editor at large for National Geographic Magazine.
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Talking Volumes 2016 season guide

Talking Volumes 2016 season guide

The 16th season of Talking Volumes includes interviews with Elizabeth Alexander, Carl Hiaasen, Gloria Steinem, Ann Patchett and Colson Whitehead.
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Creator of 'Fargo' TV show crafts one of the year's best suspense novels

Creator of 'Fargo' TV show crafts one of the year's best suspense novels

Noah Hawley's new novel centers on a private jet carrying a group of wealthy and powerful people that crashes into the Atlantic. But the crash is only the beginning.
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Traveling the Oregon Trail by covered wagon, 170 years later

Traveling the Oregon Trail by covered wagon, 170 years later

Author Rinker Buck and his brother packed up a covered wagon, wrangled a team of mules, and retraced the 2,000-mile journey across the American west.
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Grief is a 'hamster wheel': How a memoir about death can still be funny

Grief is a 'hamster wheel': How a memoir about death can still be funny

In the span of seven weeks, Nora McInerny Purmort miscarried, and then watched both her father and her husband die of cancer. Her memoir tackles grief with unflinching humor and honesty.
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