Repeatedly named the “Most Literate City in the United States,” the Twin Cities has played host to numerous visiting national writers via book tours, festivals, and lectures. This curation presents broadcasts over the decades of writer’s voices in form of speech, interview, and discussion.
October 31, 1992 - A Weekend Edition interview with English journalist and author Eric Silver shares details on figures within his book, The Book of the Just: The Unsung Heroes Who Rescued Jews from Hitler.
November 6, 1992 - African American writer Paule Marshall reads from her book, Daughters.
November 10, 1992 - Midwestern photographer Frank Gohlke talks about the experience of finding and capturing images of grain elevators.
November 20, 1992 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, American author and academic Clyde Edgerton reads from his book, In Memory of Junior.
November 27, 1992 - A Worldview interview with educator and writer Daniel Hellinger, about the political unrest in Venezuela, where a second coup attempt against President Carlos Pérez has taken place.
November 28, 1992 - Karal Ann Marling, local historian and pop culture expert; and Michael Medved, American radio host and author, debate the perceived prominence of violence on TV and in film. Medved is author of the book, Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values.
December 17, 1992 - Roger Knutson, professor of Biology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, urges us to take a kinder, gentler view of the bugs that live on us with his book, Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures Who Live on You. It’s a hard sell.
January 13, 1993 - A conversation with poet and literary critic Dana Gioia, author of Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture. Gioia describes the slowing interest on poetry in popular culture.
January 15, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Anthony Signorelli and Paul Macadam, editors of Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War, published by Inroads Press (Minneapolis, MN). Poet Thomas R. Smith, from River Falls, Wisconsin, also takes part in conversation.
January 20, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with American political scientist Andrew Hacker about his thoughts on the state of race in the United States. Hacker also discusses his book, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.