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.
September 26, 1994 - Midday presents author Amy Tan, author of the bestseller The Joy Luck Club, speaking at the Westminster Town Hall Forum on how "ethnic correctness", as she puts it, is taking its toll on literature.
February 3, 1995 - On this segment of First Friday, MPR’s Beth Friend interviews American poet Christopher Merrill, who shares his frustration on the lack of concern in arts community of the Bosnian War tragedy. Segment also includes Merrill reading Bosnian poetry.