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.
June 26, 1992 -
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July 1, 1992 -
July 1, 1992 -
July 3, 1992 - Barton Sutter reads his essay “Boundary Waters Canoe Park.” Sutter recalls the travails to get into Boundary Waters being far more trecherous than the wild.
July 3, 1992 -
July 4, 1992 -
July 4, 1992 - Co-author of Solutions for the New Work Force: Policies for a New Social Contract and contributor to The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women by Ellen Bravo and Ellen Cassedy.
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