March 17, 1994 - On this Midmorning segment, Irish-American teacher and writer Frank McCourt reads “Ham and Sherry" from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. The book is tragicomic recollection of McCourt’s childhood experience of squalor.
March 17, 1994 - A Midday interview segment with English translator and author Kevin Crossley-Holland about poetry. Topics include the history, rhyme vs. free verse, and popularity of poetry in Minnesota. Crossley-Holland is endowed chair in Humanities at the University of St. Thomas.
March 23, 1994 - Morning Edition’s Bob Potter talks with Edina author Sandra Benitez, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award for A Place Where the Sea Remembers. Benitez also reads from book.
April 2, 1994 - American writer and novelist Frances Sherwood discusses her book, Vindication. The novel is a historical fiction on Mary Wollstonecraft, a pioneer feminist and author of the radical classic, A Vindication of the Rights of Women: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
April 6, 1994 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews local Black author Alexs D. Pate about his novel, Losing Absalom, and the health and natural deaths of African American fathers.
May 6, 1994 - On this First Friday program, MPR’s Beth Friend presents a story collection of various arts and culture topics.
May 24, 1994 - MPR’s Joaqlin Estus reads a Ojibwe world view form Poetry for Family Project.
May 31, 1994 - A Midmorning interview with local journalist and novelist John Sandford, aka John Camp, on his book, Night Prey.
June 10, 1994 - On this First Friday program, MPR’s Beth Friend presents a story collection of various arts and culture topics. Several pieces are based on the theme of ethnicity.
July 1, 1994 - On this First Friday program, MPR’s Beth Friend presents a story collection of various arts and culture topics. It’s a summer fare.