May 7, 1999 - Morning Edition speaks with authors John Camp and Ron Handberg. Camp, who publishes under the name John Sandford, has a new book coming out next week called Certain Prey. Handberg's new book Dead Silence is already in stores.
May 10, 1999 - A Twin Cities speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen. She was the featured speaker at last month's Pen Pals Lecture series sponsored by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Anna Quindlen titled her speech, and her most recent book, How Reading Changed My Life.
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May 18, 1999 - While it seems we're constantly assailed with stories of writers being offered huge advances on the strength of a single sample chapter: the journey to being a published author is often long and lonely. Just ask Minneapolis writer Wendy McCormick who labored for years, and crossed an ocean, before she finally saw her name in print. McCormick's first book, a picture book for children, is appropriately enough, about travelling.
May 20, 1999 - A farm in southwest Minnesota probably is not the first place you'd expect a professional mezzo soprano to call home, but that is exactly what MPR’s Mark Steil found when talking with Gary Overgaard, a farmer, and his wife Emily Lodine, an opera singer.
May 21, 1999 - The Twins haven't been doing so well recently. But as commentator Nanci Olesen has found out, recently winning isn't necessarily the important thing.
May 21, 1999 - Clean-up time has begun at the state capitol. Legislative leaders and the Governor's staff are beginning to sift through the thousands of pages of legislation passed in the final few hours of the session on Monday -- with an eye to weed some of it out before it has a chance to become law.
May 21, 1999 - The wrangling over the largest tax cut in state history ended last Monday night, but the fight over who gets to take credit for it has just begun. The state Republican party bought a full-page ad in the Star Tribune yesterday thanking House Republicans for the tax cut -- and suggested Governor Ventura and the Democrats opposed it.
May 21, 1999 - On Sunday evening, NBC will broadcast "The Jesse Ventura Story" a made for TV movie commissioned shortly after Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota. Critics have panned the movie, calling it shallow and inaccurate. Still it presents a generally favorable --- if simplistic --- view of Ventura and his anti establishment message.