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.
January 7, 1988 -
January 7, 1988 -
January 8, 1988 - MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Minnesota poet and author Bill Holm about teacher exchange program. Holm also answers listener questions.
January 16, 1988 - Pat Donohue, Guy Clark, Mary Jane Alm, Kevin Kling, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, with the Good Evening Band.
February 1, 1988 - Star Tribune columnist Jim Klobuchar and fellow mountain climber Rod Wilson answer listener questions about their adventures. Klobuchar's new book is "When We Reach for the Sun".
February 20, 1988 - Charles Norman, director of the Learning Skills Center at Macalester College, discusses writing, the use of the English language, and origins of words. Norman also answers listener questions.
March 12, 1988 - Star Tribune food writer Al Sicherman takes listener questions about cooking, cuisine, and related topics.
March 26, 1988 - Horseflies, Bill Holm, Michale Smith, with the Good Evening Band
April 17, 1988 - Architecture writer for the Pioneer Press Dispatch, Larry Millett talks to Bob Potter about the unique architecture of the Twin Cities. Listeners call in with their questions.
May 16, 1988 - Mainstreet Radio-Brainerd’s Leif Enger rides along for the day for group fishing launch onto Mille Lacs Lake with Joe Fellegy, a local historian, musician, writer and fishing expert. Report includes various interviews.