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 2, 1992 - Midday program presents two documentaries: "Messages from the Grandparents", a look at Cherokee, Winnebago, Pueblo, and Mohawk elders who present oral narratives which provide the basis for community behavior at how oral traditions are passed from one generation to the next; and "Cultural Identity," a look at the cultural and social bases for contemporary Indian identity among the Houma, Lumbee, and Yaqui.
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March 3, 1992 - A review of Tess Gallagher's new book of poetry, "Moon Crossing Bridge." She is on a book tour, and this story features readings from her book.
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March 6, 1992 - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer discusses Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and draws parallels between Huxley's distopian and George Bush and uncritical patriotism in his new book.
March 6, 1992 - Susan Delattre is the co-author, with Susan O'Halloran, of "The Woman Who Lost Her Heart: A Tale of Reawakening" (1992) and "The Woman Who Found Her Voice: A Tale of Transforming" (1997).
March 7, 1992 - Judith Katz is the author of two novels, "The Escape Artist" and "Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound".