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 30, 1995 -
January 5, 1996 - National Press Club Broadcast featuring three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. He wrote "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "A Delicate Balance," "Zoo Story" and many others.
January 5, 1996 -
January 5, 1996 - Every winter for the last eight years, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis has published a literary commemoration of the season. "The Winter Book," as it's called, is a highly artistic handmade tribute to the pulse and ritual of winter. In this year's book however, winter becomes a metaphor for the writer's exploration of the death of his parents.
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