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 10, 1993 - Women Come to the Capitol play built on the premise that Susan B. Anthony, once elected president, appoints a diverse group of notable women to her cabinet.
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March 11, 1993 - The Rover by Aphra Behn at Park Square Theatre and Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter at The Loring Playhouse.
March 11, 1993 - Gary Harm, grand-nephew of Minnesota artist and children’s book author Wanda Gag, reads “Millions of Cats.”
March 12, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Minnesota poet Phebe Hanson about her poetry, the concept of “Minnesota Nice," life for women in the state, and a conference Hanson will speak at that celebrates Minnesota women as part of national women's history month.
March 12, 1993 - Essay on Duluth sister city Superior, Wisconsin later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
March 12, 1993 - Freelancer Carroll, who apparently debauched with the legendary gonzo journalist, recounts her experiences here in the precious, faux gonzo voice of a semi-fictionalized alter ego, Laetitia Snap. She intersperses her Thompson escapades with an oral biography, assembling quotes rather than crafting a narrative. Carroll's interviewees--including Thompson's brother, mother, ex-girlfriend, ex-wife, colleagues, even George McGovern--offer many interesting observations on her subject's alienated youth, writing style, celebrityhood, behavior and journalistic influence. "He's both ultimately sane and crazy," declares one friend. Paul Perry's Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson is a more coherent biography; also, although Perry had fewer sources than Carroll, he had one she didn't: Thompson's sidekick illustrator Ralph Steadman.
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