This collection encompasses 50-plus years of interviews, readings, speeches, and reports on the vibrant literary scene in Minnesota. Not only home to giants F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, our state has an array of incredible contemporary poets, novelists and playwrights. Their words make up majority of this collection.
Repeatedly being named the “Most Literate City in the United States,” the Twin Cities has played host to numerous visiting national writers via book tours, festivals, and lectures. Many recordings of these are also included.
This project was funded by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
November 2, 1992 -
November 6, 1992 - Essay on autumn and death later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
November 6, 1992 -
November 6, 1992 -
November 9, 1992 -
November 10, 1992 - "Measure of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape"
November 18, 1992 -
November 19, 1992 - In interview with Ted Hall, the author of "Growing with the Grass," based on the author's family life.
November 20, 1992 -
November 20, 1992 - Clyde Edgerton reads from his book "In Memory of Junior."