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.
March 5, 1997 -
March 10, 1997 - Morvern Callar is 18 years old, loves listening to loud music on her Walkman, and going to raves in the small Scottish port where she lives. She doesn't seem to care about much else in the novel bearing her name, even when her long-time boyfriend rather messily commits suicide in their kitchen. The book, written by first time novelist Alan Warner, is attracting a great deal of attention as a portrait of late nineties youth. It's also the latest in a stream of books from a group of Scottish Novelists, including Irvine Welsh of "Trainspotting" and James Kelman of "How Late it Was, How Late" who have taken the literary world by storm. Alan Warner reads from his work tonight at the Hungry Mind Bookstore
March 14, 1997 - Tami Hoag, Minnesota resident and author of many bestselling suspense novels. Her newest is "A Thin Dark Line."
March 14, 1997 - Tami Hoag reads from her book A Thin Dark Line.
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March 20, 1997 - On this first day of spring, Mainstreet Radio’s Mark Steil presents some stories from the winter of '97…and shares words from winter's past in the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder and O.E. Rolvaag.
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April 4, 1997 - Dave Nimmer reads from his new book "Lessons on the Journey," published by Nodin Press.
April 5, 1997 - Dorothy said, "there's no place like home." Author Barbara Bonner agrees. In her new book "Sacred Ground: Writings About Home" Bonner complies an interesting collections of writings about "home." Barbara Bonner says home has always been the focus of her life. Five years ago Milkweed Editions Publisher Emilie Buchwald asked her to edit "Sacred Ground". The first step in compiling the book was to advertise in literary magazines for material. Bonner says she was overwhelmed with the response.