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 6, 1991 - Voices from the Heartland
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April 20, 1991 - An interview with Martha Boesing on her new play "Standing on Fishes" which is a part of the Environmental Theater Project in Minneapolis.
April 20, 1991 - A Voices from the Heartland essay about Hope Minnesota in the spring.
April 23, 1991 - An interview with Jon Hassler on his playwrighting.
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