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.
March 4, 1994 - In this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads Finlandia at Fourteen Below, an essay on the inspiration of music in life.
March 5, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy on his thoughts of poetry and politics.
March 11, 1994 - In this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota travel writer John Shepard reads Fire and Heat at Prairie Island, an essay on Shepard’s visit to Joe Campbell’s home, located within the Prairie Island Indian community and near a radioactive power plant.
March 17, 1994 -
March 17, 1994 -
March 18, 1994 - An essay about early spring in Minnesota, written and read by Susan Carol Hauser.
March 21, 1994 -
March 23, 1994 - MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Edina author Sandra Benitez, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award for "A Place Where the Sea Remembers." Benitez also reads from book.
March 26, 1994 -
March 26, 1994 -