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.
February 29, 1992 - Minnesota author Lawrence Sutin provides an essay on jury nullification.
February 29, 1992 - Weekend Edition’s Jim Wishner talks with professor Karal Ann Marling, who explains the history of leap year day (February 29th) on the Gregorian calendar.
February 29, 1992 - Dr. Justin O'Brien, a theologian, philosopher, and lecturer, provides insights into what the Enneagram is…and isn’t. The personality system identifies nine distinct, interconnected types based on one’s core fears, desires, and motivations.
March 6, 1992 - American academic and author Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer discusses Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and draws parallels between Huxley's dystopian and George Bush and uncritical patriotism in his book, Brave New World Order: Must We Pledge Allegiance?.
March 6, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews local writer Susan Delattre about the art and value of storytelling.
March 7, 1992 - Jewish and lesbian writer Judith Katz talks about writing and finding community in the Midwest.
March 7, 1992 - Local teacher and writer Julie Landsman reads some of her writing. The setting of this piece is a cafe.
March 12, 1992 - Toni McNaron, professor of English and Women's Studies at University of Minnesota, discusses her book, I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir. McNaron recalls early life with her mother and racist/lesbophobic atmosphere in the South.
March 13, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland episode, MPR’s Marlana Benzie-Lourey talks with central Minnesota poet Nancy Paddock about the growing popularity of poetry, teaching workshops at nursing home, and the different types of poems. Paddock also reads numerous poems.
March 19, 1992 -