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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January 28, 1994 - Recorded while a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Saint Olaf College and Endowed Chair in Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Saint Thomas.
January 31, 1994 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews Native American author Louise Erdrich about her novel "The Bingo Palace." Erdrich talks of the complexity of gaming on tribal land.
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February 5, 1994 - Jack Weatherford, author and professor of anthropology at Macalester College, discusses his books and experiences traveling the world. Weatherford also answers listener questions.
February 5, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Aron Pilhofer, the news editor of the weekly gay publication Equal Time. Pilhofer discusses the goals of newspaper and the concerns of his leadership role at Equal Time, being that he is straight and not part of the gay community.
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