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.
July 9, 1994 - Michigan nature writer Jerry Dennis reads an essay on a thunderstorm and the both comforting and humbling aspects of Earth’s weather.
July 9, 1994 - Local writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin hails the “gifts” from the season of summer. It is a perspective of a hardened Minnesota winter survivor.
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July 12, 1994 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews Minnesota mystery author Robert Dingwall (R.D.) Zimmerman about his book, Red Trance. The book is the third Russian-centric thriller following Dingwall’s characters Maddy Phillips, a blind and paraplegic forensic psychologist, and her brother Alex.
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July 13, 1994 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews artist and author Howard Siverston about his book, The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories. Siverston details the use of birch bark canoes, historical diaries, and the eventual decline of fur trading in the Great Lakes and Boundary Waters region.
July 13, 1994 - Minnesota visual artist Howard Sivertson reads a short excerpt from his book, The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories.
July 14, 1994 - MPR’s Mindy Ratner interviews Alice Kaplan on her culture, growing up in Minnesota in a Jewish family, and her book French Lessons: A Memoir.
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