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.
May 30, 1997 - 1997 happens to be the 100th anniversary of the publication of Emily Bronte's classic novel, "Wuthering Heights". In honor of the novel's centennial year, an experimental theater company in Minneapolis called 15 Head, has brought the story to the stage. But the production lends itself more to the world of dreams than the world of theatrical adaptations of literary classics.
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May 31, 1997 - Kids are staring their summer vacation and you know what that means--within 48-hours they'll claim utter boredom. Well, Curious George and Dr. Seuss may save the day. But choosing a book is a challenge. The Red Balloon Book Shop in St. Paul and the children's section of many public libraries are great places for kids and parents to find books. The owner of the Red Balloon--Michelle Cromer-Poire' says book sellers and libriarans are good resources.
June 13, 1997 - John Henricksson, "A Parliament of Owls," from North Writers II - The Lives Around Us edited by John Henricksson, published April 1997 by University of Minnesota Press.
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June 20, 1997 - Adapted from the book The Bird in the Waterfall: Exploring the Wonders of Water by Jerry Dennis, with drawings by Glenn Wolff. Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
July 6, 1997 - This long holiday weekend is the perfect time to head up to the cabin with a good book. If you like stories set in Minnesota--you may want to consider packing Lorna Landvik's latest novel "Your Oasis on Flame Lake". The book is set in a small Minnesota town as two best friends from High School approach 40 and reassess their lives.
July 21, 1997 - Hume Cronyn is an acting renaissance man. He's been a famous stage actor since the 1930s. He's a playwright and a screenwriter. He acted on television in 1939, and he's been in movies since 1943's Shadow of a Doubt, when he played a rabid murder mystery fan.
August 8, 1997 - The Blandings Turtle is never going to attract attention like an eagle can, or a timberwolf, or a peregrine falcon. Turtles personify the low profile; but Blandings turtles are nevertheless a threatened species here. Now, researchers at Camp Ripley are tracking the reptiles' movements -- and taking their temperatures -- in a two-year study they hope will improve the turtles' modest hold in Minnesota.
August 15, 1997 - In Little Falls, a choral group is rehearsing, "View from the Air" a new work by Mankato State University professor David Dickau . It premieres this weekend as a part of the 70th anniversary celebration of Charles Lindbergh's famous flight across the Atlantic. Lindbergh grew up on a farm in Little Falls in central Minnesota. His daughter, children's author Reeve Lindbergh, who also wrote the poem this music is based on, returns to Little Falls this weekend to take part in the celebration.