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.
February 18, 1991 -
February 22, 1991 - MPR’s Kate Smith reports on the play “Hmong Tapestry: Voices from the Cloth” by Jaimie Meyer and Michael Lenzen, and presented by the Hmong American Partnership Youth Program.
February 26, 1991 - Minnesota writer Paul Gruchow speaking at a major conference about Children tha twas held at St. Mary's College. His speech was entitled "Children of Surfeit, Children of Want."
March 6, 1991 -
March 15, 1991 - MPR’s Beth Friend profiles St. Paul poet and essayist David Mura. Mura is interviewed about his experience getting a writing grant and moving to Japan for a year.
March 16, 1991 - Larry Millett, staff writer on architecture and urban development for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, answers listener questions about architecture and buildings around the region.
March 16, 1991 - A Voices from the Heartland essay about the Equinox in New Mexico.
March 23, 1991 - MPR’s Susan Orandi reports on Garrison Keillor’s return to A Prairie Home Companion. Keillor stopped doing his A Prairie Home Companion show in 1987, but says he has searched for some happy way of rediscovering and operating the roots of the show.
March 25, 1991 -
April 4, 1991 -