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 29, 1994 - Naomi Wolf, author of "The Beauty Myth," discusses feminism at Saint Olaf College.
March 31, 1994 - An interview with Martha Boesing, a playwright who wrote a biographical play of her friend Meridel Le Sueur.
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March 31, 1994 - An interview and a review of Martha Boesing's play, "Hard Times Come Again No More."
April 1, 1994 - A parody of trend topics, Vickie Abrahamson talks about genetics and couples deciding what their children are going to look like, and forecasts trends in their babies.
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