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.
July 8, 1994 - MPR’s Beth Friend interviews editors David Carr and Rick Nelson about the launch of Q Monthly, an insert inside the alternative weekly Twin Cities Reader. Carr and Nelson discuss purpose of paper for gay and lesbian community.
July 9, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Kathleen Stauffer on here new book, Womansport: The Women's Sports Bible. She discusses how women belong in sports, the inequity in the field, and the changes to come.
July 9, 1994 -
July 9, 1994 -
July 12, 1994 -
July 13, 1994 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews author Howard Siverston about his book “The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories." Siverston details the use of birch bark canoes, historical diaries, and the eventual decline of fur trading in the Great Lakes and Boundary Waters region.
July 13, 1994 -
July 14, 1994 - MPR’s Minday Ratner interviews Alice Kaplan on her culture, growing up in Minnesota in a Jewish family and her book French Lessons: A Memoir.
July 15, 1994 - Essay on baseball later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
July 20, 1994 -