February 19, 1992 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews Black journalist, novelist, and poet Thulani Davis. Davis details the autobiographical premise involved in book, 1959: A Novel.
February 25, 1992 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews Rochester poet Rose Harmon-Davis. They discuss poetry, race, and identity in the business world. Segment also includes reading of poem.
March 2, 1992 - MPR’s Kitty Eisele interviews Nicholson Baker about his book, Vox: A Novel. The book is an erotic novel written entirely as a phone conversation between two strangers.
March 3, 1992 - A profile of American poet and essayist Tess Gallagher and her book of poetry, Moon Crossing Bridge. Segment includes and interview and reading by author.
March 6, 1992 - MPR’s Beth Friend interviews detective fiction writer Sara Paretsky about her book series protagonist character V. I. Warshawski and the stresses of writing.
March 21, 1992 - Local short story writer Jim Heynen reads Fewer Cats Now.
March 26, 1992 - MPR’s Kitty Eisele interviews Christiana Garcia, author of Dreaming In Cuban: A Novel. Garcia talks about leaving journalism for fiction writing and reads from book.
April 1, 1992 - MPR’s Beth Friend talks with author Robert Olen Butler about his book, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. The short story collection captures the Vietnamese immigrant experience in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. In segment, Butler reads a passage from book.
April 14, 1992 - An interview with Marjorie Dorner about her book, Winter Roads, Summer Fields: Stories. Many of the pieces in collection are based on stories she grew up with on a dairy farm outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
April 24, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews Minnesota historian Rhoda Gilman and children's librarian Kathleen Baxter about Maud Hart Lovelace, American writer best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.