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.
August 7, 1992 - Essay on Aspen Parkland later collected in "Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent" by Laurie Allmann, published October 1996 by University of Minnesota Press.
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August 14, 1992 - Minnesota author Jim Dwyer talks about amateur prospecting and his book "Lake Superior Gold: An Amateur's Guide to Prospecting in the Lake Superior Region." Dwyer details the various tools and strategies in prospecting along the North Shore and surrounding area.
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August 15, 1992 - Three Minnesotans serve on The American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel: Garrison Keillor, Patricia Hampl and Eugene McCarthy.
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