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.
May 29, 1992 - Essay on a big woods walk through later collected in "Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent" by Laurie Allmann, published October 1996 by University of Minnesota Press.
May 29, 1992 - Jazz as Social Structure, Process and Outcome by David Bastien, from the book Jazz in Mind: Essays on the History and Meaning of Jazz, edited by Reginald Buckner.
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June 4, 1992 - Betty Friedan speaking about "Feminism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" at the College of Saint Benedict.
June 5, 1992 - MPR’s Kitty Eisle interviews Howard Sivertson, a Grand Marais artist and author of "Once Upon an Isle: The Story of Fishing Families on Isle Royale." Sivertson details the past of Isle Royale fishermen.