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.
July 20, 1994 -
July 22, 1994 - Published Hyperion June 9, 1994, Susan Straight reads a section from "Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights."
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July 29, 1994 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews sports columnist Jim Klobuchar about former Minnesota Vikings coach Bud Grant induction into the National Football League’s Hall of Fame.
July 29, 1994 -
July 30, 1994 - References "American Angling: The Rise of Urbanism and the Romance of the Rod and Reel" by Colleen Sheehy from the book Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940, published by University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
August 5, 1994 - On this segment of MPR’s Voices From the Heartland, Writer John Shepard recounts his birthday kayak journey on the waters of Lake Superior and through the Apostle Islands.
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