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.
July 30, 1983 -
August 1, 1983 - I. F. Stone - journalist, social critic, and editor-publisher of I. F. Stone's Weekly - speaks on "A Maverick's View of the World" at Ford Hall Forum.
August 2, 1983 - Robert Cromie talks with former Secretary of State for President Jimmy Carter, Cyrus Vance about his book Hard Choices & Critical Years in American Foreign Policy.
August 6, 1983 -
August 23, 1983 - Dr. Paul Rosenblatt, author of "Bitter, Bitter Tears: Nineteenth Century Diarists and Twentieth Century Grief Theories," answers listeners' questions about grief and bereavement.
August 29, 1983 -
September 8, 1983 -
September 23, 1983 - Feminist Gloria Steinem answers questions about her new book, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.
September 24, 1983 -
September 24, 1983 -