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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April 8, 1993 - Cochrane is professor emeritus and Runge is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota.
April 8, 1993 - An interview with Helen Myhre on her history of baking and how she came to co-author of the book, "Farm Recipes and Food Secrets fro mteh Norske Nook."
April 8, 1993 - MPR’s Kate Moos reads James Wright’s beloved poem “A Blessing.” The poem is based on an actual experience James Wright had whilst driving home one late afternoon with his friend Robert Bly, a fellow poet. They pulled off the highway and stopped to admire two ponies.
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