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.
April 18, 1996 - Commentator Gary Eustice has seen a lot of people who've gone through tough times in his years as a therapist. But sometimes, a particular case, a particular person, proves to be haunting. Sometimes, Gary Eustice says, it's too much to ask people to rise above what has happened to them.
April 19, 1996 - Maple syrup time in Minnesota means warm days when the nights stay cool. Spring has been teasing us this year, but still the sap is running in the maple trees. Ojibwe storyteller Ann Dunn recently received a gift from her mother that brought back sweet and sticky maple-flavored memories.
April 20, 1996 -
April 20, 1996 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews Minnesota author Louise Erdrich about her book “Tales of Burning Love.” Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains women whose lives are connected through one man.
April 22, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning featuring Voices of Minnesota with Veda Ponikvar, Iron Range newspaper editor of Chisolm Free Press. Also Arne Fogel on Groucho Marx and Odd Jobs - Doggie Doo Yard Cleaning.
April 22, 1996 - A Voices of Minnesota segment feature. MPR’s Catherine Winter speaks with Veda Ponikvar, Iron Range newspaper editor of Chisolm Free Press. Ponikvar talks of the history and economy of Iron Range, and selling of the newspaper. This is part 2 of discussion.
April 22, 1996 - On today's Voices of Minnesota, we'll hear from newspaper editor and publisher Veda Ponikvar. On Minnesota's Iron Range, everybody knows the name Veda Ponikvar. She has been the editor of the Chisholm Free Press for nearly fifty years. She's also been involved in just about every democratic political campaign, and counted among her friends congressman John Blatnick from the 8th district and senators Hubert Humphrey, and Eugene McCarthy. She has watched the Iron Range towns boom and bust, and she has championed countless projects to try to keep the Range on its feet -- projects such as Iron World, the creation of the Bounday Waters Canoe Area, and, more recently, the Northwest Airlines Reservation Center in Chisholm.
April 23, 1996 -
April 23, 1996 - For many people who love books: the feel of them, the look of them and especially the way ideas take shape in them, its anathema to think books might one day come in an electronic form. But to others its the much- anticipated soon-to-be-realised inevitable future. Imagine being curled in bed, reading Jane Austin or Mark Twain, words blinking from a laptop computer. In this first of two reports on the future of the book, Mary Stucky talks to some of those who've been thinking the most about how technology may change the way we read.
April 24, 1996 - Depending with whom you talk, American book publishing is either stronger than ever or nothing more than a tawdry extension of Hollywood. Americans bought a record number of books last year. And some say books available to the consumer are not any better nor any worse than years past. But as Mary Stucky reports, there's growing criticsm of publishers for just focusing on what sells.