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.
April 16, 1996 - Cuba maintains a peculiar place in the American psyche. A tropical paradise, once the playground of rich American tourists, it's is now decried as the home of Castro's communism. Travel writer Pico Iyer... best known for his pieces on his trips to out of the way spots... says he fell in love with Cuba and its ambiguities on his first visit. It's those ambiguities that led him to set his first novel on the island. "Cuba and the Night" tell the story of the love affair between Richard, an American photojournalist and Lourdes, a young Cuban woman.
April 17, 1996 - Native American author Louise Erdrich reads an excerpt from her book "Tales of Burning Love."
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April 17, 1996 - The passing of a loved one can lead a person to do extraordinary things. This mornings St Paul Pioneer Press tells how a St Paul woman plans to float her fathers ashes down the Mississippi in a pop bottle. It was one of his last requests allowing him to finally make a long planned trip to Louisiana It's a story which could well resonate with British Novelist Graham Swift. His new novel "Last Orders" tells the tale of a group of four men travelling to throw their friend's ashes off the pier in an English seaside resort.
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April 18, 1996 - Commentator Gary Eustice has seen a lot of people who've gone through tough times in his years as a therapist. But sometimes, a particular case, a particular person, proves to be haunting. Sometimes, Gary Eustice says, it's too much to ask people to rise above what has happened to them.
April 19, 1996 - Maple syrup time in Minnesota means warm days when the nights stay cool. Spring has been teasing us this year, but still the sap is running in the maple trees. Ojibwe storyteller Ann Dunn recently received a gift from her mother that brought back sweet and sticky maple-flavored memories.
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