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.
June 11, 1993 - Essay on a first canoe ride remembrance later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
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June 18, 1993 - A review of "Enlightenments on an Enchanted Island" is a play about a play to explore interracial relationships. It includes an interview with playwright Marion McClinton.
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June 18, 1993 - A reading from Barry Lopez's book "Crow and Weasel."
June 19, 1993 -