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.
November 1, 1993 - Author of the book "No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept".
November 1, 1993 - A reading from an anthology of poems, “Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women,” published in 1993 by Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN). Excerpt is from an introductory narrative and poem written by poet Isabel Fraire.
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November 3, 1993 - Author Antonia Fraser talks about her new novel "Mary, Queen of the Scots".
November 3, 1993 - Erin Hart reviews the playwrights "Anne Frank" and "Beehive".
November 5, 1993 -
November 5, 1993 - First Friday
November 5, 1993 - Photography by Frank Oberle.
November 5, 1993 - First Friday