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.
December 25, 1996 - Minnesota author Ann Daly Goodwin commentary on the holiday surprise of cookies and joy of togetherness.
December 26, 1996 - MPR’s Mary Losure created this report for National Public Radio detailing the efforts to save Native American language by teaching it to next generation. Losure interviews both language teachers and students at Nay Ah Shing school in Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.
December 27, 1996 - We'll hear a few of the winning entries in the Children's Museum annual short story contest. “Feelings Don’t Mix with Maggie” by Ellen Finnegan, 5th grade at Oak Point Intermediate School in Eden Prairie. Read by 10 year old Ben Wareham of Expo Elementary School in Saint Paul.
December 27, 1996 - We'll hear a few of the winning entries in the Children's Museum annual short story contest.Untitled story by 6 year old Corey Kryszak, 1st grade at Saint Rose School in Roseville. Read by Molly Nelson, 4th grade at Bailey Elementary School in Woodbury
December 27, 1996 - We'll hear a few of the winning entries in the Children's Museum annual short story contest. "Melody" by 9-year-old Anna Rice of Randolph Heights Elementary School in Saint Paul. Read by 10-year-old Ben Wareham of Expo Elementary School in Saint Paul.
January 1, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger visits Mille Lacs, and reports on the perplexing nature of ice fishing.
January 3, 1997 - Kent Nerburn, "January" and "Benediction" from "A Haunting Reverence."
January 4, 1997 - Faith Sullivan's latest book, "The Empress of One" was born out of frustration and rejection. Her best-selling novel The Cape Ann was printed by a New York publisher. But when Sullivan submitted the sequel to her story, it was roundly rejected by her publisher. That reaction plummented Faith Sullivan into a depression and into a writing block. But the encouragement of local Milkweed Editions publisher--Emilie Buchwald--prompted Sullivan to embark on a new project.
January 10, 1997 - Susan Carol Hauser's latest book is titled "Full Moon: Reflections on Turning 50," published by Papier Mache Press.
January 11, 1997 -