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.
March 17, 1994 -
March 18, 1994 - An essay about early spring in Minnesota, written and read by Susan Carol Hauser.
March 21, 1994 -
March 23, 1994 - MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Edina author Sandra Benitez, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award for "A Place Where the Sea Remembers." Benitez also reads from book.
March 26, 1994 -
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March 29, 1994 - Naomi Wolf, author of "The Beauty Myth," discusses feminism at Saint Olaf College.
March 31, 1994 - An interview with Martha Boesing, a playwright who wrote a biographical play of her friend Meridel Le Sueur.