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.
September 28, 1993 - Educator and local journalist Ann Daly Goodwin gives a critical assessment of the ugly nature of sexism and violence against women.
September 29, 1993 - Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer interviews American writer Judy Blume about her children’s book, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Here's to You, Rachel Robinson, and topics from her catalog.
September 29, 1993 - A point-counter point segment with biologist Anne Pusey, who studied animal behavior for 20 years and is a professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota; and author Martha Roth, editor of the feminist quarterly Hurricane Alice and co-editor of the book, Transforming a Rape Culture.
September 29, 1993 - American author and poet David Mura provides commentary on sexual violence by men in American culture and how that violence, and male mindsets in general, compare from a world perspective.
September 29, 1993 - Poet Tracy Barkis reads her poem, titled I Set Myself Free, which addresses violence against her.
September 29, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly interviews American novelist and screenwriter Mark Frost. The two discuss Frost’s Twin Peaks screen work and his occult thriller, The List of 7: A Novel.
September 29, 1993 - In this Midmorning segment, Patricia Weaver Francisco and Signe Nestingen talk about their experiences writing about the rape as a way to understand their experiences.
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September 30, 1993 - Local theater critic Erin Hart reviews Stephen Wade’s Banjo Dancing and David A. McElroy’s Isadora Duncan: A Life.
September 30, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Mulcahy talks with an author of book on ideas. The two discuss the creative concept and how it has to touch the consumer.