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.
December 23, 1994 -
December 23, 1994 - MPR’s Marlana Benzie-Lourey interviews Duluth poet Louis Jenkins about his book "Nice Fish." Jenkins reads title poem of book.
December 23, 1994 - Fans of the 19th century American writer Louisa May Alcott have a lot to be excited about these days. Not only is the new movie of "Little Women" out and receiving rave reviews, but a new, never-published, rather steamy Alcott manuscript has suddenly emerged! "A Long Fatal Love Chase" is the literary find.
December 26, 1994 -
December 28, 1994 - MPR’s Joelle Audette profiles Native American enivironmentalist activist Winona LaDuke, who is involved in a land recovery project for the White Earth Indian Reservation. Report includes interview with LaDuke on her various activities.
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January 6, 1995 - Leslie Brody came to Minneapolis for a fellowship at The Playwrights Center and spent eight years at The Hungry Mind Review as a columnist and contributing editor.
January 6, 1995 -