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.

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Booksellers across the country share their favorite books about hope

1 week 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.
Art Hounds: Endangered flora in handmade paper, an absurdist play and a multimedia symphony

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

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. Vanishing flora, captured on handmade PaperMinneapolis-based visual and teaching artist Ilene Krug Mojsilov recommends “Vanishing Flora: Fiber Art,” an exhibition by Amanda Degener at the Northside Artspace Lofts Gallery in Minneapolis.
Ask a Bookseller: ‘Black Liturgies’ by Cole Arthur Riley

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. 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.
Art Hounds: Choral transformation, small-town musical and a Zappa tribute

3 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

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. Musical premiere in Bemidji tackles small-town healingKevin Cease of Bemidji is a funeral director and fan of community theater.
Ask a Bookseller: ‘We Will Be Jaguars’ by Nemonte Nenquimo

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. This week, as our series on books of hope and connection continues, Laynee Wessel with Bliss Books & Bindery in Stillwater, Okla., recommended a memoir about our ties to the natural world. The book is “We Will be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People” by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson.
Weisman Art Museum show, New Media Opera and Red Bull BC One

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.
Ask a Bookseller: ‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune

1 month ago | mprnews.org | Emily Bright

Ask a Bookseller is focusing this season on books of hope and connection. Asked to recommend a book of hope, Beth Rusk of Magers & Quinn Booksellers went straight to the novels of TJ Klune. “Under the Whispering Door” is one of her favorites. It’s a cozy fantasy set in a tea shop, which also happens to be a waystation for the dead. When Wallace, a successful lawyer, dies of a heart attack, he tries unsuccessfully to negotiate his way out of what he views as an unpleasant turn of events.
Art Hounds: A ceramic party, Asian American classical music and forest sculpture

1 month 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. A spring garden in ceramics Cindy Pope is a ceramic artist from Waite Park.
Ask a Bookseller: ‘Dream Count’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 month 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. As we continue our focus on books of hope and connection, Lori Virelli of Harvey’s Tales in Geneva, Ill., wanted to recommend Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel “Dream Count.”It’s Adichie’s first novel in over 10 years.
Art Hounds: Latino musicals and textile, plus Lilith Fair revisited

1 month 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. Generations of sewingDaniela Bianchini is a Minneapolis mosaic artist who is originally from Argentina.