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.
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February 18, 1993 - Also author of Justice Seekers, Peacemakers: 32 Portraits in Courage (Mystic, Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications, 1985).
February 18, 1993 - Circle Gets the Square, Cupid and Someone Else
February 18, 1993 - MPR’s Bob Potter interviews former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, who shares his thoughts on President Clinton’s State of the Union Address.
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February 25, 1993 - A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture, published by University of Minnesota Press and co-editor of Redressing the Balance: American Women's Humor from the Colonies to the 1980s, published by University Press of Mississippi.
February 25, 1993 - Two plays at History Theatre with tour: Scott and Zelda: The Beautiful Fools (World Premiere) by Lance S. Belville and The Great Gatsby By John Carlile.