December 3, 1993 - On this First Friday segment, MPR’s Euan Kerr reports on the creation of Swimming, Snow by Paulette Bates Alden. The work is the sixth “Winter Book” published by Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
December 3, 1993 - An interview with Bob Holman and Tracie Morris, of New York’s Nuyorican Poets Cafe, discuss poetry slam taking place in Twin Cities. Both also do a poetry reading.
December 3, 1993 - On this First Friday segment, Elle editor Leslie Brody pitches her choices on best books for the season.
December 4, 1993 - Local commentator and writer Lawrence Sutin shares an anecdote about the problem of political discourse in the locker room.
December 4, 1993 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles Mask Dance, a Theater Mu play about adopted Korean kids. Kerr interviews director and actors from the work that brings into focus Korean culture.
December 4, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews an instructor about the writing form of “hyperfiction,” non-linear digital literature where readers use hyperlinks to navigate through fractured narrative nodes.
December 4, 1993 - Weekend Edition film reviewer David Brauer gives his take of Daniel Appleby’s film Bound and Gagged: A Love Story. The movie is set in Minnesota.
December 7, 1993 - Tom Heffelfinger, a former U.S. attorney, explains the possible decisions of U.S. Justice Department in pursuing a fraud investigation into U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger.
December 8, 1993 - American feminist author and journalist Naomi Wolf discusses the state of the feminist movement and her book, Fire with Fire: New Female Power and How It Will Change the Twenty-First Century.
December 9, 1993 - Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the center for biomedical ethics at the University of Minnesota, talks about the topic of physician-assisted suicide and answers listener questions.