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 5, 1993 - On this First Friday segment, MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Robert Alden Rubin, editor of "Poetry To Read Out Loud," about the various forms and views of poetry. Includes readings of various poems.
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November 10, 1993 - Also discusses life after WCCO and new job at KTCA with NewsNight Minnesota.
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November 11, 1993 - William H. Hull, author of “All Hell Broke Loose: Experiences of Young People During the Armistice Day 1940 Blizzard,” talks about the stories he complied of the surprise storm that struck Minnesota on November 11, 1940. He also imparts the necessity to be aware of the speed of weather changes.
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November 12, 1993 - Recorded while a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Saint Olaf College and Endowed Chair in Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Saint Thomas.