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 5, 1983 - Robert Cromie talks with Carolyn Forche, who has written about El Salvador.
April 18, 1983 - Jewish author Eli Wiesel is a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, he spoke at a Survivor's Conference with other death-camp survivors and some excerpts from his book "Night" are read by Arthur Hoehn.
April 27, 1983 -
April 27, 1983 -
May 3, 1983 - Robert Cromie talks with Joanne Beck about her book about giving a child a head start in life.
May 6, 1983 -
May 10, 1983 - Robert Cromie talks with Michael Straight about his book, "After Long Silence."
May 17, 1983 - Robert Cromie talks to Mary Morris about her novel, "Crossroads."
May 21, 1983 - William F. Buckley, Jr., talks about medical malpractice with Drs. Arthur Mannix, Jr. and Richard Moskowitz, and attorney Stanley Rosenblatt.
May 24, 1983 - Host Robert Cromie talks with Daniel B. Frank, author of Deep Blue Funk, a book about teenage unwed mothers.