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.
November 15, 1991 -
November 15, 1991 -
November 22, 1991 - Essay later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
November 27, 1991 - MPR’s Catherine Winter profiles Ruth Hein, a Minnesota writer who has been doing regional ghost hunting and compiling spirit stories.
November 27, 1991 -
December 4, 1991 -
December 7, 1991 - Features Barnes and Noble superstore, Roseville, Michele Cromer-Poire of Odegard Books and Red Balloon Bookshop, and Brian Baxter of Baxter's Books.
December 9, 1991 -
December 10, 1991 -
December 13, 1991 -