February 12, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Twin Cities native and author Susan Carol Hauser reads her essay, Cake Walk.
February 12, 1993 - Local playwright and storyteller Kevin Kling reads the poem To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell.
February 13, 1993 - MPR’s Beth Friend profiles Black playwright Endesha Ida Mae Holland. Segment includes interview with Holland, who recollects on time in Minnesota and how she found her path to writing.
February 18, 1993 - Local theater critic and writer Erin Hart reviews plays Circle Gets the Square and Cupid and Someone Else being staged at Red Eye Theater.
February 18, 1993 - American novelist, playwright, and essayist Darryl Pinckney talks about the ideas behind his debut novel, High Cotton. The story looks into the world of upper-middle-class Black elite.
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February 25, 1993 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder talks with Nancy A. Walker, author of the book A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture, published by University of Minnesota Press; and co-editor of Redressing the Balance: American Women's Humor from the Colonies to the 1980s, published by University Press of Mississippi.
February 25, 1993 - A Midmorning segment on F. Scott Fitzgerald and two plays at History Theatre about the author…Scott and Zelda: The Beautiful Fools by Lance S. Belville; and The Great Gatsby by John Carlile. Includes an interview with playwright Lance Belleville and professor Lloyd Hackle.
February 26, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Darrell Yates Rist, writer and co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Rist discusses the AIDS epidemic and his book, Heartlands: A Gay Man's Odyssey Across America.
February 26, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, a reading of author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Absolution.