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.
August 29, 1981 -
August 31, 1981 -
September 3, 1981 - A new show opening at the Guthrie Theater is a dramatization of a series of novels based on Appalachian folk tales, with actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. They were part of Tyrone Guthrie's original repertory company. They talk with Nancy Fushan about the play "Foxfire."
September 5, 1981 -
September 19, 1981 -
September 25, 1981 -
September 25, 1981 -
September 26, 1981 - Gordon Parks is interviewed about his writing, and especially his interest in Ireland and the resulting novel, "Shannon".
October 1, 1981 - National Town Meeting talks about the great American novel with authors Francine Gray and Larry McMurtry.
October 3, 1981 -