August 6, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads an illustrative essay about her travels to Mexico.
August 6, 1993 - On this First Friday segment, a New Yorker’s essay on the joys of a summer ice cream.
August 7, 1993 - A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer."
August 10, 1993 - Two All Things Considered cuts of American writer Joyce Carol Oates. The first is interview excerpt about her book, Foxfire. The second is a short reading from book.
August 13, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Southern writer Lee Smith provides another reading from her novel, The Devil’s Dream.
August 20, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads as essay that finds himself playing a role in family car camping.
August 26, 1993 - A Midmorning interview from the Minnesota State Fair with Peg Meir, local author and writer for the Star Tribune newspaper. Meier talks about and reads from her book, Too Hot, Went to Lake.
August 27, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, local theater actor Nathaniel Fuller reads Grace, an essay of fly fishing.
September 4, 1993 - J. H. reads Autumn, a poem by Minnesota writer Paul Gruchow.
September 4, 1993 - On this Weekend Edition segment, M. C. reads an essay about the love of letters and letter writing.