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.
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January 22, 1993 - Recorded while a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Saint Olaf College and Endowed Chair in Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Saint Thomas.
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January 27, 1993 - MPR’s Beth Friend reports on Penumbra Theatre play King of Coons. The play is a portrayal of Black film comedian Stepin Fetchit.
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January 29, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland, Laurie Allmann reads a version of her essay on the sub-boreal forest of Minnesota later collected in "Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent," published by University of Minnesota Press.