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.
October 31, 1991 - Minnesota author Duke Addicks has been collecting ghost stories since he was a kid. He has a conversation with Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder about his experience and some of the eerie tales found.
November 1, 1991 - An essay on living in Duluth later collected in "North Writers II: Our Place in the Woods - Postcards from Duluth" edited by John Henricksson, published April 1997 by University of Minnesota Press and Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
November 2, 1991 - Weekend Edition’s Jim Wishner talks with author Bill Holm about the snowstorm that hit state. Holm gives his impression on what blizzards are all about…a time to read and write.
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November 15, 1991 - Jack Weatherford of Macalester College answers listener questions about his new book "Native Roots: How the Indians enriched America."
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November 15, 1991 - Published June 15th 1991 by Minnesota Historical Society Press.