June 29, 1987 - Noah Adams starts a summer reading series on The Morning Show, offering excerpts from the work of Paul Gruchow, Antoine de St. Exupery, Michael Dorris, and the Autobiography of Joan Baez.
September 26, 1987 - MPR’s Kate Moos reports on Minnesota Poets in the Schools Program (now COMPAS). Segment includes interviews with John Caddy and Randy Jennings, who describe program and its history.
October 24, 1987 - Weekend host Mark Heistad interviews Minnesota author Mary Logue about her first novel, Red Lake of the Heart. The book is a murder mystery containing the character Claire Watkins, a police officer in a small Minnesota town.
October 24, 1987 - Book reviewer Leonard Lang shares his impressions of Spillville: A Collaboration by Patricia Hampl.
November 1, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the first installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at idea of family in fiction, a profile on writer Joseph Brodsky, and an introduction on ‘living list' of great books.
November 8, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the second installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at violence in books and a dictionary questionnaire.
November 15, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the third installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at writers and a birthday celebration of poet Marianne Moore.
November 22, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the fourth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at kindness in literature and illegal reading.
November 28, 1987 - Susan Williams reviews The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich. It is the second of a proposed quartet of novels by the author.
November 29, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the fifth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at letters, comic reads, and ‘poetry wars’ at Los Angeles Times.