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, 1989 - Susan Williams provides a review of "Killing Time in Saint Cloud" by Judith Guest and Rebecca Hill. The book is a crime novel about a family who moves to St. Cloud, Minnesota, after the death of their mother.
January 21, 1989 -
February 21, 1989 - A Soundprint program. Playwright August Wilson is one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary American theater. At one time he was also one of Minnesota's most famous residents. August Wilson lived in St. Paul for more than a decade. It was here that Wilson wrote many of his major plays including two Pulitzer Prize winners.
March 4, 1989 -
March 23, 1989 - Minneapolis businessman, Harvey MacKay, whose best-selling book "How to Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive" has just come out in paperback, answers listener questions about how to succeed in business.
March 25, 1989 -
April 13, 1989 - A speech by author and broadcaster Studs Terkel given awhile ago in Minneapolis titled "America's Two Faces Concerning Greed."
April 13, 1989 - Live coverage of a Westminster Town Hall Forum with author Studs Terkel speaking on "America's Two Faces: Concerning Greed."
April 13, 1989 -
April 13, 1989 -