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, 1995 - MPR’s Gary Eichten talks with former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy about the history of Congress and President in the use of U.S. troops. McCarthy discusses the situation in Bosnia.
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November 4, 1995 - Poet Amy Nash comments on her definition of poetry. Nash also reads numerous short pieces of her work.
November 6, 1995 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, Voices of Minnesota with Bill Holm, Paul Wellstone in Jerusalem for Rabin funeral, Neal Hitchens and Julie Barnes Weaver of Voices That Care, people who love people with AIDS, at Theater in the Round.
November 10, 1995 - David Treuer, an Ojibwe author from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, reads an excerpt of his debut book Little. The story follows three generations of Little's family, including Stan, a veteran of the Vietnam War.
November 11, 1995 - Minnesota author Lawrence Sutin comments on his life progression of Thanksgiving…from childhood memories and young adulthood, to the present day, where he is now the one carving the turkey.
November 17, 1995 - Anne Dunn reads from her 1995 book, "When Beaver Was Very Great: Stories to Live By," as part of the Voices from the Heartland series on MPR.
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November 18, 1995 - John Tester, University of Minnesota professor and author of the book "Minnesota's natural heritage: An ecological perspective," discusses Minnesota's natural resources and takes listener questions.