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.
April 24, 1992 - The Minnesota Historical Society republishes Maud Hart Lovelace's Early Candlelight (1929). This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's history. Maud Hart Lovelace's careful research into the documents of the Historical Society, combined with her knowledge of the actual setting, enabled her to write a story that conveys a sense of time and place both accurate and compelling for young adults as well as general readers.
April 25, 1992 - MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Minnesota travel writer John Shepard about places to vacation in Minnesota and takes calls from listeners. Shepard wrote the book "Minnesota: Off the Beaten Path."
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April 30, 1992 - Rodney King, Vincent Chin, David Mura, Asian American Renaissance
May 1, 1992 - Li-Young Lee, Brenda Wong Aoki, Walter Liu; The Asian American Renaissance was a community based Asian American arts organization that started in 1992 with an Asian American arts conference. At that conference, on my front porch, Rick Shiomi and Dong-il Lee started a conversation that led to the founding of Theater Mu. AAR held classes; published a literary magazine, The Journal of the Asian American Renaissance.
May 1, 1992 - MPR’s Marlana Benzie-Lourey talks with St Cloud Minnesota poet Bill Meissner about the characters within his poetry. Meissner also reads numerous poems, including from his book “Hitting into the Wind.”