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.
December 30, 1992 -
December 30, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews Jim Walsh, local songwriter and music editor at City Pages, about Minnesota rockers that made a national impact in 1992. Walsh notes bands such as Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, Sugar, and Cows.
January 1, 1993 -
January 2, 1993 -
January 2, 1993 - At the beginning of 1993, MPR’s Lawrence Sutin shares his new year’s resolutions, with five resolutions in no order of importance whatsoever.
January 2, 1993 -
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January 5, 1993 -
January 8, 1993 - In this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota Barton Sutter reads his essay “A Christmas Card.” Sutter thinks back on a particular card from his grandmother.
January 9, 1993 - Pamela Fletcher, Margaret Carlson and Chen Lee Barksdale. All authors read excerpts, Margaret Carlson reads from her book The Canning Season.