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.
November 16, 1982 - Host Robert Cromie talks with science fiction writer Frank Herbert.
November 23, 1982 -
November 23, 1982 - Host Robert Cromie talks with novelist Ernest K. Gann.
November 27, 1982 - Librarian Mary Alice Sell answers live listener questions about selecting books as holiday gifts for children and teenagers.
November 27, 1982 -
November 30, 1982 - Host Robert Cromie talks with author and Neiman-Marcus president Stanley Marcus.
December 2, 1982 -
December 3, 1982 - Author Irving Stone speaking at Nobel Conference XVIII - Darwin's Legacy held at Gustavus Adolphus College. Stone’s address was titled “"The Human Mind after Darwin.” His latest book is entitled, "The Origin"; it is a history of Charles Darwin, his friends, and his time. He has achieved best-selling popularity and critical acclaim for such works as "Lust for Life", "The Agony and the Ecstasy", and "Passions of the Mind". The Nobel Conference at Gustavus was the first formal Nobel lecture program outside of Sweden and Norway to have the official authorization of the Nobel Foundation. The annual program began in 1965 and features several Nobel laureates and other highly acclaimed scholars. The 1982 conference theme was Darwin's Legacy, in observance of the centenary of the death of Charles Darwin. Eminent figures in the fields of natural history and other disciplines discussed Darwin's effects not only on science, but on history and sociology.
December 7, 1982 - Host Robert Cromie talks with John Eisenhower, author of "Allies", a book about World War II.
December 15, 1982 - Host Robert Cromie talks with Lou Cannon, author of "Reagan".