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 1, 1986 - Al Sicherman answers listener questions on food.
November 10, 1986 - Minnesota poet and storyteller, Robert Bly, answers listener questions about his writing and his relatively new interest in men's groups. Bly also reads some of his poetry.
November 11, 1986 - MPR’s Loren Omoto talks with William H. Hull, author of “All Hell Broke Loose: Experiences of Young People During the Armistice Day 1940 Blizzard.” Hull details the time period and recollections of those that lived through the storm.
November 17, 1986 -
December 20, 1986 - Dave Moore of WCCO talking about his book "A Member of the Family"
December 20, 1986 - Elaine Wynne
December 23, 1986 -
January 14, 1987 - GK interviewed by Peter Fuhrken, junior high school student. 1/14/87.
January 24, 1987 - MPR’s Euan Kerr reports on local Twin Cities version of Burns supper and celebration of Rabbie Burns, poet of the Scots. The day includes music, food and celebration of the famed Scottish poet, Robert Burns.
January 24, 1987 - Sigurd Olson: "Sounds of the Night" and "Wild Encounters" from Of Time and Place.