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.
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August 19, 1993 - Wings by Arthur Kopit at Loring Playhouse; Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo by Dario Fo and Franca Rame at Loring Playhouse; and Comedy of Terrors by Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop.
August 19, 1993 - Includes a review of the book "Too Hot, Went to Lake" by Peg Meier, winner of a 1994 Midwest Book Achievement Award.
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August 20, 1993 - Drop Him Till He Dies: The Twisted Tragedy of Immigrant Homesteader Thomas Egan by C. John Egan, published 1994. Thomas Egan was hanged in South Dakota for the murder of his wife. Over a hundred years later, his great grandson wrote this book to make a record of Thomas Egan's innocence. On August 21, 1993, Governor Walter D. Miller formally apologized for the wrongful hanging of Thomas Egan in 1882.
August 20, 1993 - Essay 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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