October 24, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with writer William Burroughs, whose credited by some as the father of the beat generation. Segment also includes Burroughs reading his work.
October 26, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews independent filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who discusses autobiographical filmmaking.
October 26, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Mark Swanholm reviews Life, Law and Letters by Louis Auchincloss.
October 31, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, pianist Rees Allison reviews Pianist's Progress by Helen Drees Ruttencutter, a profile of piano student Robin McCabe.
October 31, 1979 -
November 1, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews director Scott Rubsam, playwright Lance Belleville, and actor Jim Lawless about the COMPAS-St. Paul History Theater production "James J. Hill: The Man Who Bought Minneapolis" performed at the Landmark Center.
November 2, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Tim White, of COMPAS, reviews Family Encyclopedia of Art edited by Bernard L. Myers and Trewin Copplestone.
November 3, 1979 - A Midday broadcast of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and widow of Charles Lindbergh, speaking at the Minnesota Historical Society's 130th annual meeting on fitting memorials for great persons. Lindbergh talked about fitting memorials for great persons and discusses heroism, what it meant when her husband flew across the Atlantic and what it means today.
November 6, 1979 -
November 7, 1979 - An interview with Marisha Chamberlain, who compares her new play "Snow in the Virgin Islands" to her poetry, and who talks about the source of her play.