MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
April 8, 1993 - A Midmorning interview with Helen Myhre, co-author of Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook: The Midwest's #1 Roadside Cafe. Myhre details the book, recipes, various ingredients, and shares cooking tips.
April 8, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Maus interviews Zimbabwean novelist Shimmer Chinodya and others talk about writing coming out of war and Zimbabwe independence.
April 8, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly interviews unknown gentleman about exhibit of material from renowned American poet James Wright, including diaries and correspondence with W. H. Auden, John Crowe Ransom, and Theodore Roethke.
April 8, 1993 - MPR’s Kate Moos reads James Wright’s beloved poem, A Blessing. The poem is based on an actual experience James Wright had whilst driving home one late afternoon with his friend Robert Bly, a fellow poet. They had pulled off the highway and stopped to admire two ponies.
April 8, 1993 - Zimbabwean author Shimmer Chinodya reads from his book, Harvest of Thorns.
April 8, 1993 - An All Things Considered interview with Andrew Vachss, American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney. Vachss talks about characters from his novel, Shella, and his fight against horrific abuse of children.
April 9, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Sandra Haldeman, editor of Papier-Mache Press, about “If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies.” Haldeman talks about aging and details impetus in putting together the book.
April 9, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads his essay on Duluth weather, titled April Fools.
April 12, 1993 - A Midmorning interview with writer Deborah Jiang-Stein about the various workshops she leads for women writers in prison, including one at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, in West Virginia.
April 12, 1993 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on concerns over outside casino management corporations involved with casinos on tribal land. Enger looks at numerous situations, where the pros and cons of business arrangement are debated.