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.
October 1, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads an essay on various experiences with bats.
October 1, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Mulcahy interviews a novelist about how her personal family experience with Alzheimer's Disease influenced writing her book.
October 1, 1993 - On this First Friday segment, MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews St. Paul book editor Pam Keesey about the publication Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Tales. Keesey discusses sexuality and other elements in vampire lore.
October 1, 1993 - A First Friday excerpt of children’s author Maurice Sendak reading from We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy.
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October 2, 1993 - A reading of Louise Erdrich's meditation “The Veils," an essay on the literal and figurative symbols of veils for women.
October 2, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks Bruce MacDonald about Autumn Poems II anthology. MacDonald reads classic poems “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “Ephemera” by William Butler Yeats.
October 4, 1993 - MPR’s Leif Enger profiles the dire state of affairs for small town theatres in rural Minnesota. Enger visits the Rialto Theatre in Grand Rapids and The Chief Theatre in Bemidji to find two very different outcomes.