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.
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June 10, 1994 - Essay later collected in "North Writers II: Our Place in the Woods" - "Postcards from Duluth" edited by John Henricksson, published April 1997 by University of Minnesota Press and "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
June 10, 1994 - Leslie Brody came to Minneapolis for a fellowship at The Playwrights Center and spent eight years at The Hungry Mind Review as a columnist and contributing editor.
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June 20, 1994 - Documentary is a look at Freedom Summer, 1964.