November 15, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the third installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at writers and a birthday celebration of poet Marianne Moore.
November 20, 1987 - MPR’s Mike Mulcahy talks with Eric Stoltz, an aid to Minnesota State Senator Allen Spear, about the third annual Gay & Lesbian Political Conference, which is being held in Minneapolis. Topics of conference include 1988 elections and AIDS epidemic.
November 22, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the fourth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at kindness in literature and illegal reading.
November 29, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the fifth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at letters, comic reads, and ‘poetry wars’ at Los Angeles Times.
December 4, 1987 - MPR’s Mary Losure reports on battle of farm foreclosures. Oak Valley Farm, owned by the Jordahls’, and their fight with Farmers Home Administration, is highlighted.
December 5, 1987 - MPR’s Mark Heistad talks with Eugene McCarthy about his 1968 campaign and the conflict within the Democratic party during the convention.
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December 6, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the sixth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at children’s books and good books on bad weather.
December 8, 1987 - Eugene McCarthy, former Minnesota senator and presidential contender, speaking to the Minnesota Press Club. McCarthy’s address was titled, "The United States: The Number One Colony to the World."
December 10, 1987 - Jon Hassler, author in residence at St. John's University in Collegeville, reads from some of his works and discusses his career as an author in an appearance at the St. John's "Basilica Series" lectures in Minneapolis.