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.
September 21, 1993 - A Worldview interview with journalist Michelle Carter, author of Children of Chernobyl : Raising Hope from the Ashes. The book details the long-term damage and dangers of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
September 28, 1993 - American linguist and author Richard Lederer discusses his book, Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language.
September 29, 1993 - Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer interviews American writer Judy Blume about her children’s book, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Here's to You, Rachel Robinson, and topics from her catalog.
October 14, 1993 - Midday presents Westminster Town Hall Forum speech by Betty Rollin, author and NBC News correspondent. Rollin wrote the best-selling book “Last Wish” about the suicide of her terminally ill mother.
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.
September 26, 1994 - Midday presents author Amy Tan, author of the bestseller The Joy Luck Club, speaking at the Westminster Town Hall Forum on how "ethnic correctness", as she puts it, is taking its toll on literature.
October 13, 1994 - Midday presents Dr. Cornell West, a professor of religion and director of Afro-American Studies Department at Princeton, speaking at the Westminster Town Hall Forum. West’s speech is entitled "The Politics of Race in America."
May 10, 1995 - Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, and Dr. Alvin Poussaint, author and psychiatrist, speaking at Carleton College in Northfield. The topics of speeches were on class structure, and the issues of race in the United States.
January 27, 1996 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews author Carol Shields about her award-winning works, research, and the business of writing.
February 22, 1996 - Midday presents a live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum, featuring Washington Post political writer E. J. Dionne. His speech is on why Americans hate politics.