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 3, 1993 - Swimming, Snow by Paulette Bates Alden
December 3, 1993 - Leslie Brody came to Minneapolis for a fellowship at The Playwrights Center and spent eight years at The Hungry Mind Review as a columnist and contributing editor.
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December 10, 1993 - In this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Duluth author Michael Fedo reads essay on his recollections while traveling with musical partner Dan Kossoff as they toured the Midwest during the holidays.
December 10, 1993 - La Posada (The Inn) was premiered by Teatro del Pueblo, December 1993 in Minneapolis, MN and included the following cast: Nicolas Carter, Jose Alfredo Panelli, Sally Ramirez and Nick Lopez; producers Jose Alfredo Panelli and Alberto Justiniano; director Raul Ramos.