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.
September 3, 1991 -
September 5, 1991 -
September 5, 1991 -
September 9, 1991 - Voices from the Heartland Q & A includes a reading from the book "My Father's War and Other Stories" and references the poem Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River by Robert Bly.
September 18, 1991 - Bill Hansen talks about the tradition and decline of Saunas.
September 23, 1991 -
September 25, 1991 - An interview with Rosellen Brown.
September 25, 1991 - An interview with Susan Broadhead about the Loft Literary Center and writing communities in the Twin Cities.
September 27, 1991 -
September 28, 1991 - Larry Millett, staff writer on architecture and urban development for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, answers listener questions about architecture, both old and new buildings, and the new city skylines.