May 7, 1993 - Minneapolis Black author Shika Doss reads her work about her mother, family, and estranged father.
May 7, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads an essay about a dawn experience outside Fargo, North Dakota.
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May 8, 1993 - A reading from Native American author Louise Erdrich’s The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year. The book is a meditation on the experience of motherhood and the first nonfiction work by Erdrich.
May 8, 1993 - In reaction to controversy over gossip columnist Cheryl Johnson, MPR’s Chris Roberts provides a satirical take on gossip in Minnesota with two local “experts.”
May 8, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin takes a moment to consider people watching, in particular a metal detectorist.
May 8, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Karal Ann Marling, author and professor of Art History and of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, about the history and impact of the public holiday Mother’s Day in the United States.
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May 11, 1993 - On this Midday program, a conversation with Dr. Kenneth Zapp, expert on the former Yugoslavia and professor of economics at Metropolitan State University. Zapp shares insights on the Bosnia conflict.
May 12, 1993 - A collection of reviews from local theater critic Erin Hart on The Piano Lesson by August Wilson at Penumbra Theater; and two one-act plays by Kim Hines, Cut on the Bias and Do Not Pass Go at Illusion Theater.