Fireside Reading & Podcast Series

Catherine Madison (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

March 7, 2016

Catherine Madison closes the Fireside Series with a reading from The War Came Home with Him, which tells the stories of two survivors of one man’s war: a father who…

Anton Treuer (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

March 3, 2016

Ojibwe historian and linguist Anton Treuer presents his latest work, Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe, a fascinating history which offers not only a chronicle of the Red…

Erika Lee (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

February 22, 2016

In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika…

Beth Dooley (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

February 15, 2016

In Winter’s Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland Coming from her native New Jersey, Beth Dooley had a lot of preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene.…

Rick Shefchik (2016 Fireside Reading Series)

February 8, 2016

This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big, covering Augie Garcia and Bobby Vee to…