Heidi Holtan

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  • Outreach Producer/Host
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Station-Based

Recent Pieces from Heidi Holtan

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Real Good Words: Cheryl Strayed - "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail" (00:26:27)
From: KAXE

Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.
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Real Good Words: Will Weaver (00:59:02)
From: KAXE

Heidi Holtan talked with Bemidji author Will Weaver about young adult novels and his latest “The Survivors” a sequel to the bestselling “Memory Boy”. Will also talked about ...
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Real Good Words: Jill Johnson and "Little Minnesota: A Nostalgic Look at Minnesota's Smallest To... (00:16:17)
From: KAXE

Minnesota author Jill Johnson joins Heidi Holtan to talk about her book, "Little Minnesota: A Nostalgic Look at Minnesota's Smallest Towns." Realgoodwords is our weekly book ...
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Sean Hill: Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (00:27:00)
From: KAXE

Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."
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Susan Carol Hauser: "My Kind of River Journey: Seeking Passage On the Mississippi" (00:18:25)
From: KAXE

Bemidji area resident Susan Carol Hauser's most recent book is a nonfiction chronicle of an 18 day journey down the Mississippi. Susan joins Maggie Montgomery and Scott Hall ...
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Julia Maki: "My Mom Hunts Submarines" on Real Good Words (00:12:13)
From: KAXE

Deer River native Julia Maki talks with Heidi Holtan about her book "My Mom Hunts Submarines." Julia discusses seeing the world as a anti-submarine warfare specialist in the ...
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Mary Casanova: 2012 Girl of the Year American Girl series book "McKenna" (00:19:02)
From: KAXE

Part of the "American Girl" series which presents characters of young contemporary girls dealing with contemporary issues.
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Mark Munger joins Heidi Holtan on Real Good Words to read a recent essay about his writing routine. (00:09:28)
From: KAXE

After twenty years of doing it, Mark Munger conveys this writer's "personification of pattern" as he recites this recent essay about his morning writing routine.
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Ellen Baker, author of "I Gave My Heart To Know This" (00:16:29)
From: KAXE

"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their men who are soldiers in the ...
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"The Country Doctor Revisited" edited by Therese Zink (00:20:08)
From: KAXE

Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things have changed a lot since ...