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.
November 10, 1981 -
November 11, 1981 -
November 13, 1981 - MPR's Nancy Fushan talks with playwright Edward Abee about theater, his work, and the Chimera's recent production of his play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
November 19, 1981 - Author, psychologist, and theologian Dr. Rollo May speaks to the the Westminster Town Hall Forum on love, creativity, freedom, anxiety, and death, broadcast live.
November 20, 1981 -
December 2, 1981 - Marilyn French, feminist writer and novelist, shares her thoughts on writing, the feminist movement, and society. French’s books include “The Women’s Room” and “The Bleeding Heart,” amongst others.
December 10, 1981 - A panel looking at the treatment of playwrights in American theater. Moderator Dale Huffington, Chimera Managing Director. Playwrights: Edward Albee, Tom Dunn, and Chris Kirkland.
December 10, 1981 - A panel looking at the treatment of playwrights in American theater. Moderator Dale Huffington, Chimera Managing Director. Playwrights: Edward Albee, Tom Dunn, and Chris Kirkland.Outtakes include introduction, audience questions and all segments with University of Minnesota Professor of Theater Lee Adey.
December 10, 1981 - A panel looking at the treatment of playwrights in American theater. Moderator Dale Huffington, Chimera Managing Director. Playwrights: Edward Albee, Tom Dunn, and Chris Kirkland.Outtakes include introduction, audience questions and all segments with University of Minnesota Professor of Theater Lee Adey.
December 11, 1981 - Dr. Morton Cohen, professor of English at Columbia University, speaking at St. John's University in Collegeville. Cohen’s address was titled, "The Alice Books, Why They Endure." Speech was part of celebration on the 150th anniversary of Carroll's birth. Dr. Morton Cohen is a scholar of Carroll's many works and letters. Dr. Robert Spaeth, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at St. John's University, introduced Dr. Cohen.