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, 1985 - John Olive
March 15, 1985 - Joel and Ethan Coen talk about Blood Simple.
March 16, 1985 -
April 11, 1985 - Linguistics pioneer Noam Chomsky looks at critics of American policies in an historical perspective and determines that even the harshest of critics operate within narrow constraints set by the government. Dr. Chomsky delivered this lecture "The Manufacture of Consent" at the University of Minnesota on April 3, 1985.
July 13, 1985 -
August 1, 1985 -
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August 8, 1985 - James Cada
August 10, 1985 -
August 15, 1985 - This month marks the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the end of the second world war. Today you'll hear a rebroadcast of a program entitled "Hiroshima Countdown", tracing the development of the atomic bomb. With commentary by Studs Terkel, author of "The Good War."