Patricia Weaver Francisco, novelist, essayist, playwright and author of the acclaimed Cold Feet, is interviewed by Pamela Holt of Hennepin County Library.
Jack Weatherford, anthropology professor and author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, is interviewed by Chris Dodge of Hennepin County Library.
Catherine Watson, Star Tribune travel editor and author of Travel Basics, discusses her interesting travel experiences with Sarah Nagle of Hennepin County Library.
Coverage of the reception honoring publication of In the Company of Women: Voices from the Women's Movemetrt by the Minnesota Historical Society Press; included are interviews with the authors, and testimonials from many of the women featured in the book, such as Judge Rosalie Wahl, Arvonne Fraser and Rep. Phyllis Kahn.
Scott Walker, editor and publisher at Graywolf Press in the Twin Cities, is interviewed by Edie Meissner of the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library.
Diego Vazquez and Zainab Ali, two writers and contributors to Do You Know Me Now?, an anthology of multicultural writings published by Normandale Community College, are interviewed by the editor Elisabeth Rosenberg.
Susan Varlamoff, author of The Polluters, a personal account of how concerned citizens of Eden Prairie successfully challenged expansion of a local landfill, is interviewed by Eden Prairie Librarian Marge McPeak.
Lynda Van Devanter, author and editor of Visions of War, Dreams of Peace, a collection of poetry by women who served during the Vietnam War, is interviewed by Jan Feye-Stukas.
Jackie Urbanovic, cartoonist, social activist and artist, talks about her various art and illustration projects with Sanford Berman, Hennepin County Library.
Author of "The Tree Farm: Replanting a Life," an autobiographical chronicle of the begirming of a new life in the northwoods, originally published in 1977 and recently re-issued by Hungry Mind Press; interviewed by Roger Sween, Mirmesota Library Cooperation Specialist.
Joan Timmerman, professor of theology at The College of St. Catherine and author of Sexuality and Spiritual Growth, is interviewed by Clark Morphew, St Paul Pioneer Press.
Stew Thomley, author of "On to Nicollet," the history of the Minneapolis Millers baseball team, is interviewed by David Cramer of Hennepin County Library.
Stew Thomley, author of Holy Cow, a biography of the legendary Twins sportscaster Halsey Hall, is interviewed by WCCO-TV newscaster and sports buff Dave Moore.
Steve Thayer, author of The Weatherman, a suspense novel about the television news business and Saint Mudd, a look at the St. Paul gangster days; is interviewed by Steve Benson.
Librarian, historian and author who has a lifelong knowledge of and love for the St. Croix River and who authored the 1962 volume in the "Rivers of America" book series focusing on the St. Croix. He has also recently collected and edited articles and manuscripts written by his great aunt, Elizabeth Taylor, in a new book The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady just published by Pogo Press. He is interviewed at the St. Croix Water Research Station by Director Ron Lawrenz, who also discusses the mission/resources at the Research Station.
Special Readings from Book Award nominees: Barton Sutter from Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map; Marjorie Myers Douglas from Barefoot on Crane Island; William Kent Krueger from Iron Lake; and Marsha Wilson Chall from Rttpa Raises the Sttn. Wendy Wustenberg hosts the eleventh annual celebration of Minnesota literature.
