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 6, 1991 - Tomie dePaola, noted children's book author, speaking at Macalester College convocation for the retirement of Professor Patricia Kane. dePaola shares several stories and personal reflections. Tomie dePaola is author/illustrator of over a hundred children’s books, including “Strega Nona,” “Pancakes for Breakfast,” and “Tony’s Bread.”
July 8, 1991 - Patricia Locke on preserving and speaking Tribal or native languages as they can provide a solid source of identities.
July 12, 1991 - Henry Peter Bosse, John Anfinson
July 12, 1991 - Voices from the Heartland
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July 19, 1991 - Janet Sternburg, editor of new collection "The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory", featuring "The Need to Say It" by Patricia Hampl and other essays by Harriet Doerr, Kaye Gibbons and Bharati Mukherjee.
July 27, 1991 -
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August 12, 1991 -