December 17, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with Libby Larsen, a local composer; and John Olive, resident playwright at Actors Theater, about their musical collaboration of O. Henry’s Gift of Magi into a musical.
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December 19, 1980 - A presentation of excerpts from 1980 Minnesota Writers Conference, held in Rochester. Part one features writing sessions "On Writing Fiction" by Judith Guest, and "Short Story Dynamic" by Carol Bly. Beryl Byman was the writer, producer, and director of program.
December 20, 1980 - This holiday episode of Letters on the Air, a KCUR literary program, contains several Christmas readings.
December 26, 1980 - A presentation of excerpts from 1980 Minnesota Writers Conference, held in Rochester. Part two features remarks by writers Michael Dennis-Browne, Carol Bly, Judith Guest, and John Judson. Beryl Byman was the writer, producer and director of program.
December 26, 1980 - MPR's Nancy Fushan looks at the highlights of the arts in the twin cities in 1980.
January 3, 1981 - Cyrus Colter, an African American novelist and short story writer reads the story A Chance Meeting from his award-winning short-fiction collection, The Beach Umbrella, in a live recording at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
January 8, 1981 - MPR's Nancy Fushan interviews poet Howard Nemerov, who reads from his works and explains some of his views of modern American poetry.
January 9, 1981 - Michael Langham, former artistic director of the Guthrie Theatre and its visiting director George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man", talks with Nancy Fushan about his return to the Guthrie, his career, and his future plans.
January 10, 1981 - On this episode of the KCUR program New Letters on the Air, an interview with Richard Lee Rhodes, an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction.