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 2, 1986 -
August 16, 1986 - Red Earth, White Earth
August 27, 1986 -
September 8, 1986 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles Minnesota mystery author Robert Dingwall (R.D.) Zimmerman, and his book “The Red Encounter,” a spy novel set in the Twin Cities. The plot revolves around a Russian agent sent to Minnesota to steal information about a super computer that is a vital link to ‘Star Wars’ defense system.
September 8, 1986 - On this MPR Journal program, a collection of reports, interviews, and a news rundown hosted by Gary Eichten.
September 9, 1986 - Entropy Tales by Paul Ewert (Goista The Philosopha), Nightwolf by Peter Krause, Star Fox by Timothy Fay, Entropy Enterprises, DreamHaven Books
September 27, 1986 - On Weekend, John Louis Anderson answers listener questions about the topic raised by his book, "Scandinavian Humor and Other Myths."
September 27, 1986 -
October 15, 1986 - MPR’s Mark Heistad presents "The Land Between: An Aural Portrait of the BWCA," a documentary about the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and the people who live there.
October 27, 1986 - Jim Klobuchar talks about his new book, "Eight Miles without a Pothole," a collection of his columns from the past ten years.