Talking Volumes is a community book club in the form of an event discussion series with a variety of local and national authors as guest. The live events are usually held at the historic Fitzgerald Theater, then later broadcast on KNOW 91.1 MPR News.
Talking Volumes began in 2000’ under the partnership of MPR News, the Minnesota Star Tribune, and The Loft. Over the years, the series has been hosted by MPR’s Kerri Miller and Katherine Lanpher.
December 15, 2000 - On this Talking Volumes, MPR’s Katherine Lanpher interviews Minnesota writer Bill Holm. Lanpher talks to Holm about his book “The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth.” Holm also reads from book.
December 12, 2001 - A Midmorning broadcast of Talking Volumes event with Minnesota poet Robert Bly and MPR’s Katherine Lanpher, held at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis.
March 12, 2003 - A rebroadcast of Talking Volumes event with author Robert Alexander, known locally as R.D. Zimmerman, talking with Katherine Lanpher about his novel The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar. The book is based on historical research and suggests what might have happened before and after the assassination of Russia's ruling Romanov family in Siberia in 1918.
September 29, 2006 - At this Talking Volumes event, MPR's Kerri Miller and author David Treuer discuss his book, The Translation of Dr. Apelles. David Treuer's sly and heart-pounding novel tells a story within a story: A reclusive translator of ancient American Indian texts stumbles across a love story that upends his workaday world and triggers his own need for love.