December 3, 1993 - On this First Friday segment, MPR’s Euan Kerr reports on the creation of Swimming, Snow by Paulette Bates Alden. The work is the sixth “Winter Book” published by Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
December 3, 1993 - An interview with Bob Holman and Tracie Morris, of New York’s Nuyorican Poets Cafe, discuss poetry slam taking place in Twin Cities. Both also do a poetry reading.
December 3, 1993 - On this First Friday segment, Elle editor Leslie Brody pitches her choices on best books for the season.
December 4, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin shares an anecdote about the problem of political discourse in the locker room.
December 4, 1993 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles Mask Dance, a Theater Mu play about adopted Korean kids. Kerr interviews director and actors from the work that brings into focus Korean culture.
December 4, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews an instructor about the writing form of “hyperfiction,” non-linear digital literature where readers use hyperlinks to navigate through fractured narrative nodes.
December 4, 1993 - Weekend Edition film reviewer David Brauer gives his take of Daniel Appleby’s film Bound and Gagged: A Love Story. The movie is set in Minnesota.
December 10, 1993 - Local theater critic Erin Hart reviews Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theatre. It is adapted by acclaimed playwright Barbara Field.
December 10, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Duluth author Michael Fedo reads essay on his recollections while traveling with musical partner Dan Kossoff as they toured the Midwest during the holidays.
December 10, 1993 - Playwright Jose Cruz Gonzalez and producer Alberto Justiniano talk about Latino theatre and the play, La Posada (The Inn). The play is being premiered by Teatro del Pueblo at the Guthrie Theatre.