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 7, 1981 - This week's edition of New Letters on the Air features a writer from Oberlin College, David Young. Hosted by Elbert Bell.
March 7, 1981 - Playwright Corinne Jacker discusses her play, "Bits and Pieces" performed by the At Random company at the Hennepin Center for the Arts, as well as a new play, "Domestic Issues", which will be read at the Playwrights' Center on Sunday evening.
March 8, 1981 -
March 10, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. This collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's recounts the experiences of immigrants to New York City.
March 11, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. Unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project are the basis for this program of stories about union organizing, including one protesting hair bobbing.This program features workers stories of their union activities: Morse code operators, radiomen on merchant ships, and one tale relates an organized hair bobbing that was sparked by the firing of a junior nurse for showing up at work with bobbed hair.
March 12, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. In unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project, New Yorkers talk about witch doctors, herbalists and ambulance drivers.
March 13, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. In unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's, people of New York talk about friendships, romance, and the American Dream.
March 14, 1981 -
March 14, 1981 - Readings of the work of various writers focus on fathers.
March 15, 1981 - This program looks at the relationship between creativity and politics in the life and work of some Latin American novelists currently living in the United States