KAXE is turning 50! Fifty years of connecting our northern Minnesota communities with music, news, local stories and books!
What We’re Reading rolled out in 2015 following Heidi Holtan’s footsteps with Realgoodwords, which started around 2001. And don’t forget Pine River librarian Marlys O’Brien could be heard on the airwaves before that. Clearly, book talk has been an important part of KAXE through the decades.
To celebrate KAXE’s 50th, I dug into the archives of What We’re Reading for some of my favorite interviews—not realizing how impossible this would be. I’ve interviewed hundreds of writers and book people, from nationally renowned authors to writers from our own back yard, and I have gotten something special from each conversation: from humor and comfort and kinship to insight, curiosity, and wonder--in short, all the things that make us human.
Happy birthday KAXE! And thank you to our listeners and especially our members for making all of this possible and being a part of this amazing community. Here’s to many more years of music, news, conversation, learning, and of course, books.
Some interviews referenced in this segment:
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