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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

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Where Readers Meet Writers. Conversations on books and ideas, Fridays at 11 a.m.

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Valentine’s Day special: Unpacking all kinds of love...

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2025/02/14

It’s Valentine’s Day! To mark the occasion, Big Books and Bold Ideas is dipping into the archives to focus on love — and not just romantic love. This show highlights love of all kinds: familial love, love between friends, even the love of books. We start with Leif Enger, who joined host Kerri Miller in Red Wing last June to talk about his novel, “I Cheerfully Refuse.” Enger’s latest book is dystopian in nature, but at its heart, it’s a love story. We then dip into Miller’s conversation with

00:53:47

Fabienne Josaphat’s ‘Kingdom of No Tomorrow’ explores...

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2025/02/07

At what cost revolution? In Fabienne Josaphat’s new novel, “Kingdom of No Tomorrow,” 20-year-old Nettie Boileau trades the turmoil of Duvalier’s Haiti for the tumult of 1960s America. Settling with her aunt in Oakland, she is drawn to the social programs spearheaded by the burgeoning Black Panther Party. But her focus on healing and public health is soon subsumed by the revolution and her passionate relationship with Black Panther leader Melvin Mosley. Josaphat drew on her own family’s

00:52:37

In her new memoir, Sarah Hoover offers an unflinching...

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2025/01/31

Sarah Hoover knows her new memoir, “The Motherload,” isn’t flattering. She’s made peace with the fact that “people will judge me on the internet,” as she says on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas.She’s telling her story anyway because she believes an honest rendering of modern motherhood is necessary. “In my defense, birth and motherhood did not match up to the narrative I’d been fed, and it felt like a nasty trick,” she writes. “And while my mental breakdown was embarrassing at times,

00:57:32

Histories collide at the dawning of a new age in ’The...

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2025/01/24

David Wright Faladé didn’t learn the truth about his lineage until he was 16. That’s when his mother told him that his biological father was a West African student she initially met in post-war Paris, as she grappled with the trauma of her Jewish family surviving the Holocaust. It was a shock to a mixed-race boy growing up in the panhandle of Texas, playing football and drinking Slurpee’s in 1970s America. But the surprises didn’t stop there. When Wright Faladé eventually moved to France

00:51:31

On the brink of the inauguration, historians reflect...

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2025/01/17

President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated for a second term on Monday, Jan. 20. So this week, Big Books and Bold Ideas asked two historians who’ve written about America’s past to reflect on America’s future and give us a broader view of where we are. They point to eras in our past that predict our present. They also discuss what they’ll be watching for as Trump returns to the Oval Office.Guests:Carol Anderson a historian and professor of African-American studies at Emory University

00:57:32

Naturalist Robin Wall Kimmerer on her new book, ‘The...

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2025/01/10

Robin Wall Kimmerer embodies an abundance mindset. The naturalist and author sees the world through the lens of her Anishinaabe ancestors, where interdependence is reality, and humans are neither above nor below the natural world. We are just one part, kin to every animal and plant and stream. Her beloved book, “Braiding Sweetgrass,” laid out this philosophy. Published in 2013, it enjoyed a gentle rise to public consciousness, not jumping onto the bestseller list until six years after

00:51:46

Why some college students aren’t reading books

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2025/01/03

In Nov. 2024, The Atlantic’s cover article rang alarm bells among readers, writers, college professors and parents alike. The article was headlined: The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.The premise is that many students admitted to elite colleges arrive having read very few books all the way through.“It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading,” says the article. “It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.”This week on Big Books and

00:56:22

Christopher Bollen unleashes 'Havoc' with his new...

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2024/12/27

00:51:29

A bereaved single father navigates a new path forward...

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2024/12/20

00:52:07

In her new book, journalist Brigid Schulte asks what...

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2024/12/13

00:53:31

The gut's curious history

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2024/12/06

00:48:00

Dr. Marty Makary on medicine's blind spots

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2024/11/22

00:58:55

Helen Scales advocates for the ocean in ‘What the...

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2024/11/15

00:51:00

Richard Powers brings to life the death of the...

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2024/11/08

01:48:08

Talking Volumes: Kate DiCamillo

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2024/11/01

00:56:44

Unsung Americans with Minnesota‘s own Sharon McMahon

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2024/10/25

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American democracy requires that we ’be architects,...

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2024/10/18

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Novelist Kevin Barry writes an Irish western with...

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2024/10/11

01:31:07

Talking Volumes: Louise Erdrich on ‘The Mighty Red’

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2024/10/04

01:16:22

Talking Volumes: Alice Hoffman on ’When We Flew Away’

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2024/09/27

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