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.
April 29, 1989 - Bill Holm, Metamora, Laurel Masse, Heinen, with the Good Evening Band
May 19, 1989 - MPR’s Tom Meersman does a profile on new production by performer Garrison Keillor. The production, called “Garrison Keillor’s American Radio Company of the Air,” will include monologue, music, and comic sketches. The new two hour show will follow in the footsteps of A Prairie Home Companion.
May 26, 1989 - A tribute to the late University of Minnesota political science professor, Mulford Q. Sibley. Program features his popular speech entitled, "My Last Lecture," as well as excerpts from an interview on Midday in June, 1982, and excerpts from a call-in program.
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June 10, 1989 - A Catherine Winter report on the Bad Jazz performance in the Walker Arts Center. Bad Jazz is a three-men jazz music performance.
August 17, 1989 - Author Howard Mohr answers listener questions and reads from his new book, "A Minnesota Book of Days (And a Few Nights)."
September 8, 1989 - MPR’s Leif Enger Interviews students about their experiences at the Leech Lake's Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, and educators on the need for the school.
September 18, 1989 - Pulitzer Prize winning St. Paul playwright August Wilson who has a world premiere of two plays opening at the World Theater on Friday, September 22, answers listener questions.
September 18, 1989 - Poetry, essays, and other literature thrives in Minnesota. This is a report on Milkweed Editions and Graywolf Press.
September 18, 1989 - An interview with August Wilson about his favorite play, "The Coldest Day of the Year."