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 25, 1993 -
March 26, 1993 - Hibbing native and second-generation Korean American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee reads from her new book "Finding My Voice."
March 29, 1993 - Richard Moe, author of The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, talks with Midday’s Gary Eichten about his book and the Civil War participants. Moe also answers listener questions.
March 29, 1993 -
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April 1, 1993 -
April 1, 1993 - Minnesota author Michael Fedo recalls a childhood memory of April Fools’ Day in a story reading.
April 2, 1993 - A look at arts and popular culture:1. Minneapolis playwright Lee Blessing and "Patient A", play about AIDS victim Kimberly Bergalis2. A chat with trendwatcher Vickie Abrahamson3. Stephen Sommers, director of Walt Disney film The Adventures of Huck Finn 4. Art critic Patrice Koelsch, are critics too reticent? 5. Art critic Dan Sullivan, are Minnesotans too nice? 6. Black teens with video artist Daniel Bergin 7. Computer Music minus one on play-along records 8. Commentator Susan Berkson on spring ritual of getting married
April 2, 1993 - Publisher Henry Holt & Co., March 1993
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