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 19, 1993 -
June 19, 1993 - An interview with author Jim Heynen, includes reading of "The Hike".
June 19, 1993 -
June 22, 1993 - An interview with Marlin Bree, who decided to sail Lake Superior on a sailboat that he built. The journey is chronicled in the book "In the Teeth of the Northeaster."
June 23, 1993 -
June 23, 1993 -
June 24, 1993 -
June 24, 1993 - A review of the book "Something Under the Bed is Drooling," a collection of stories written by 6-8 graders.
June 25, 1993 - Voices from the Heartland segment presents author Judith Hougen reading her poem "Coming of Age."
June 25, 1993 -