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 16, 1986 -
May 22, 1986 - New York Times reporter Andrew Malcolm, author of "Final Harvest: An American Tragedy," speaks to the Minnesota Press Club about his story of the murder of Ruthton, Minnesota, bankers Rudy Blythe and Toby Thulin.A BBC profile on Muammar Gaddafi fills out the hour.
May 24, 1986 -
May 27, 1986 - MPR’s Kate Moos talks with St. Paul’s Ann Bancroft about her expedition to the South Pole. Bancroft recounts the challenges of being in the Arctic.
May 29, 1986 - Paul Gruchow answers listener questions about the Minnesota prairie and his book "Journal of a Prairie Year."
May 30, 1986 - Publisher and Writers Conference, Minnesota Press Club, Steven Brust, Cats Have No Lord, Patricia Wrede, Kara Dalkey, Emma Bull, The Players of Luck, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore
June 20, 1986 - Garrison Keillor at the Loft in Minneapolis. He reads. With Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson.
June 27, 1986 -
July 21, 1986 -
July 30, 1986 - Short Stories and Tall Tales by John Olive