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May 28, 1987 - Playwright Marsha Norman speaking at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She talks about the role of family in the theater, contrasts American themes with British themes, and talks about her own family relationships.Part of the series "The Mythic Family".
June 8, 1987 - Reverend Joy Bussert, a Lutheran pastor and author of "Battered Women: From a Theology of Suffering to an Ethic of Empowerment", and Mary Taylor, director of the Harriet Tubman shelter in Minneapolis, answer listener questions about battered women.
June 29, 1987 - Noah Adams starts a Summer reading series on The Morning Show, offering excerpts from the work of Paul Gruchow, Antoine de St. Exupery, Michael Dorris, and the Autobiography of Joan Baez.
July 18, 1987 - Writer and humorist Howard Mohr answers listener questions about his new book "How to Talk Minnesotan".
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August 29, 1987 - Literary agents Jonathan and Wendy Lazear answer listener questions about their work representing fiction and non-fiction writers, and how to attract the attention of an agent.
September 17, 1987 - Joanne Van Oorsouw, writing coordinator at the College of St. Catherine, answers listener questions about the use of language, the sources of phrases and words, etc.
September 26, 1987 - MPR’s Kate Moos reports on Minnesota Poets in the Schools Program (now COMPAS). Includes interviews with John Caddy and Randy Jennings, who describe program. Caddy also reads poem by a fourth grade student at St. Croix Catholic School in Stillwater, entitled “Wolf, Dark of NIght.”
October 17, 1987 - An interview with Carol Bly, author of "Letters from the Country" and a contributor to"Soil and Survival" with Joe and Nancy Paddock.Carol talks about living in rural Minnesota and answers listener questions.