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 18, 1992 - Midday program presents two documentaries: "Shared Visions: Art, Music and Literature", reflections on cultural continuity by Native American artists, writers, dancers, and musicians; and "Traditional Caring: Non-traditional Health Issues," a look at how Native Americans confront contemporary health concerns such as diabetes, alcoholism and AIDS with traditional healing practices.
March 19, 1992 -
March 19, 1992 - An interview with Susan Marie Swanson, author of the children's book "Hungry Mind" and a trend towards a depiction of diversity.
March 19, 1992 -
March 20, 1992 - An interview with Lance Belville about his new play, which illustrates a Swedish American in Minnesota.
March 20, 1992 - Essay on driving 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.
March 21, 1992 -
March 21, 1992 - "Fifty cats were not too many on the farm. Sixty or seventy, it was all right. They were worth their weight in cream."
March 23, 1992 -
March 24, 1992 -