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, 1993 - Includes cuts from A Christmas Carol
December 23, 1993 - Minnesota poet and author Bill Holm reflects on singing Christmas songs in his Lutheran childhood, with memories of the cold, tin ears, and a favorite carol.
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December 24, 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.
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December 24, 1993 - Neda Miranda Blazevic-Krietzman is an artist, author and former professor of English and Core Curriculum, including art, at St. Catherine University in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN. She was born in Gracac, Croatia, and grew up in Zagreb where she graduated from the University of Philosophy with a double major in Comparative Literature and Sociology. She studied art in (West) Berlin, Germany. She resided between 1982 and 1992 in Berlin and Munich, Germany, New York, Boston and Iowa City as a writer, artist and professor. From 1993 until 2007, she lived and worked in Minneapolis, MN. Since 2007, she lives and works in San Diego, CA.
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December 25, 1993 - St. Paul author Lawrence Sutin shares his thoughts on being a non-Christian Christmas celebrant.