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 4, 1983 - William Granger, author of The Shattered Eye and other spy stories, talks with host Robert Cromie
January 11, 1983 - Host Robert Cromie talks with Thomas Kinsella about his novel Schindler's List.
January 15, 1983 -
January 18, 1983 - Lady Mary Soames, author of a book several generations of the Churchills, talks with host Robert Cromie
January 22, 1983 -
January 25, 1983 - Host Robert Cromie talks with James Phalen, author of Scandals, Scamps, and Scoundrels.
February 3, 1983 - Internationally known author, lecturer and broadcaster on Poland's struggle for freedom and Soviet threat to the west. City Club Forum
February 7, 1983 - Dick Dunlap, author of Donovan: America's Master Spy, is interviewed by host Robert Cromie.
February 15, 1983 - Host Robert Cromie talks with Virginia Gardner author of Friend and Lover: The Life of Louise Bryant.
February 17, 1983 - Eugenia Zukerman, flutist and arts critic, speaks at the Westminster Town Hall Forum on "The Power of Music and the Music of Power."