Emily Bright

Interim Senior Producer at Minnesota Now

Weekend Host: MPR News. Host: Ask a Bookseller podcast, Art Hounds. Writes MG, PB. “Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood” forthcoming. Opinions are my own.

Articles

Ask a Bookseller: ‘My Friends’ by Fredrik Backman

6 days ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now.
‘I'm one American story’: Author Kao Kalia Yang resists being ‘the Hmong voice’

1 week ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. This year marks 50 years of Hmong refugee resettlement and immigration to Minnesota. In 1975, after the Vietnam War and after Communists took over Laos, many Hmong people had to flee their homelands. Hmong families resettled as refugees across the world, including in Minnesota.
Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter’ by Stephen Graham Jones

1 week ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Has Ryan Coogler’s recently released horror film “Sinners” got you in the mood for more vampire books? Ben Mayne of Tattered Cover Book Store in Littleton, Colo., recommends “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones. Mayne says the book gives “Interview with a Vampire” vibes.
Art Hounds: Homegrown Festival, Native short films and a youth string fest in Marshall

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here. Happy Homegrown!It’s that time of the year when, for eight days, local music reigns in Duluth and Superior.
Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Antidote’ by Karen Russell

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. Participating indie bookstores across Minnesota and the country will offer special events or deals. We celebrate with particular gusto in the Twin Cities metro, where this year, 37 bookstores are participating in the Independent Bookstore Passport created by Rain Taxi.
The state of student loans as the Trump administration begins debt collection

3 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright |Aleesa Kuznetsov

Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it will begin collecting student loans that are in default starting in May. According to data from The New York Federal Reserve, Minnesota has about 844,000 student loan borrowers, for a total balance of $28 billion. Of those borrowers, about one percent are delinquent.
Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood

3 weeks ago | bookshop.org | Emily Bright

Get 20% Off These Select Community-organizing & Climate-friendly Books. Shop here!Poems of Early MotherhoodThis title will be released on:May 1, 2025Add to WishlistBookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the worldDescriptionWith a journalist's eye for detail and a poet's capacity for won- der, Bright captures the intense moments of early motherhood. Here are the worry and the fierce delight, the 3 a.m. wake-ups, and the floor strewn with Cheerios.
Ask a Bookseller: ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky’ by Elif Shafak

3 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

On The Thread’s Ask a Bookseller series, we talk to independent booksellers all over the country to find out what books they’re most excited about right now. We finish up our Books of Hope series with a sweeping novel that interconnects lives across time through a single drop of water. The book is “There Are Rivers in the Sky” by award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
Art Hounds: Puppets, comedy and Minnesota’s literary roots

4 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here. Time-traveling puppets and Cherokee futurismOogie Push is a Minneapolis-based actor and playwright.
Booksellers across the country share their favorite books about hope

1 month ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

In a politically divided time, perhaps we can find common ground in a good book. Ask a Bookseller has been reaching out to independent booksellers across the country, and they’ve recommended books of hope and connection to others and to the planet. Their choices ranged from romance to science fiction, slice-of-life essays to memoir.