Weekend Edition (Regional Edition) is an MPR News segment series that runs as a companion to broadcasts of NPR’s Weekend Edition. As a regional version, the series highlights local news, commentary, profiles, and reports.
October 8, 1988 - Book reviewer Leonard Lang provides his impression of James Lileks' novel Falling Up the Stairs.
November 26, 1988 - Book reviewer Leonard Lang shares his thoughts on Patricia Weaver Francisco’s novel Cold Feet.
January 7, 1989 - Susan Williams provides a review of "Killing Time in Saint Cloud" by Judith Guest and Rebecca Hill. The book is a crime novel about a family who moves to St. Cloud, Minnesota, after the death of their mother.
January 21, 1989 - Susan Williams provides a book review of Jim Harrison’s Dalva.
March 4, 1989 - Book reviewer Susan Williams gives a critique of Will Weaver’s first fiction collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat.
March 25, 1989 - MPR’s Mark Heistad interviews Craig and Nadine Blacklock about Border Country: The Quetico-Superior Wilderness, a book by Tom Klein, which features nature photography by the Blacklocks.
June 10, 1989 - MPR’s Catherine Winter reports on the Bad Jazz performance at the Walker Art Center. Bad Jazz is a local three-men jazz music performance.
November 11, 1989 - MPR’s Mark Heistad talks with Gaylord Schanilec about handmade prints book project he completed, entitled Farmers. Schanilec details the approach in creating book.
November 25, 1989 - MPR’s Mark Heistad interviews Robert L. Reid, author of Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943. The book highlights photographs from the Farm Security Administration.
December 30, 1989 - Book reviewer Leonard Lang gives his critique of the book The Graywolf Annual Six: Stories from the Rest of the World. The book is edited by Scott Walker.