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 29, 1993 - Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Vusumuzi Zulu about the art and skill behind storytelling and a local Black storytellers celebration. During segment, shares the folktale Signifying Monkey.
October 29, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota mystery writer Brian Freeman shares a Halloween story that involves a ghost along the shore of Lake Superior and the sunken ships its waters contain.
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October 30, 1993 - Local author and commentator Lawrence Sutin shares ghost stories and a remembrance for the late Algernon Blackwood. Sutin reads excerpts from The Wendigo by H. P. Lovecraft and M. R. James’ work, The Old Man of Visions.
October 30, 1993 - Famed horror writer Clive Barker reads his short story The Departed, which concerns the tale of a dead woman who can visit the living on Halloween.
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November 1, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews architect, critic, and writer Peter Blake about the history behind modern architecture.
November 1, 1993 - A reading from an anthology of poems, Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, published in by Milkweed Editions. Excerpt is from an introductory narrative and poem written by poet Isabel Fraire.
November 1, 1993 - St. Paul mystery writer Kate Green describes her novel, Black Dreams. The plot of book revolves around a psychic who receives messages from an abducted child.