September 18, 1989 - MPR’s Tom Meersman reports on thriving Minnesota presses publishing poetry, essays, and other literature. Meersman interviews members of Milkweed Editions and Graywolf Press, who state that strong audiences are behind the positive literary business climate.
December 20, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the final installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at winter, book selections, and poet William Trevor.
December 13, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the seventh installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at religious characters, novellas, and listener correspondence.
December 6, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the sixth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at children’s books and good books on bad weather.
November 29, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the fifth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at letters, comic reads, and ‘poetry wars’ at Los Angeles Times.
November 22, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the fourth installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at kindness in literature and illegal reading.
November 15, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the third installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at writers and a birthday celebration of poet Marianne Moore.
November 8, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the second installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at violence in books and a dictionary questionnaire.
November 1, 1987 - Host and authors Patricia Hampl and Carol Bly present the first installment of Hampl and Bly on Books, a collaboration between MPR and The Loft. The program includes a look at idea of family in fiction, a profile on writer Joseph Brodsky, and an introduction on ‘living list' of great books.
October 17, 1987 - On this Weekend edition of Midday, an interview with Carol Bly, author of Letters from the Country and a contributor to Soil and Survival with Joe and Nancy Paddock. Carol talks about living in rural Minnesota and answers listener questions.