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.
June 15, 1982 - Robert Cromie talks with novelist John Gregory Dunne on his latest novel "Dutch Shea Jr."
June 19, 1982 -
June 26, 1982 -
June 26, 1982 - Cornell professor and author Carl Sagan, Senator Gary Hart (D-Col.), and the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr. discuss how to prevent nuclear war. Recorded at a teach-in at Cornell University in November 1981.
July 3, 1982 -
July 3, 1982 - Retired University of Minnesota Political Science Professor Mulford Q. Sibley talks about his political activism, being an outspoken anti-war activist, his pacifism, and other issues, such as how Garrison Keillor affected his red-sock wearing habit. He speaks with Bob Potter and takes listeners' questions.
July 8, 1982 - This program looks at the creative and inventive scholars, including Buckminster Fuller.
July 13, 1982 - Radio correspondents reminisce about their experiences reporting on WWII. Interviewees include: Charles Collingwood, William Shirier, Eric Sevareid and John McVanee. Produced for NPR by Carolyn Jensen. Narrated by Noah Adams.
July 14, 1982 - Dr. Thomas Pearsall, professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, discusses English language and current usage. Pearsall also answers listener questions.
July 24, 1982 -