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.
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April 10, 1992 - A reading from "Two Chairs Telling" as part of the Voices from the Heartland series.
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April 11, 1992 - Karen Nelson Hoyle is interviewed about the Kerlan Collection, the cornerstone of the Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Minnesota's Archives and Special Collections. Nelson Hoyle highlights some of the collection, including Wanda Gag's papers.
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April 11, 1992 - Acupuncture
April 11, 1992 - Phil Patton has written a book about American inventions, opening with Thomas Jefferson's inventions.