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.
September 16, 1992 -
September 16, 1992 -
September 17, 1992 -
September 17, 1992 -
September 17, 1992 - MPR’s Beth Friend reports on playwright John B. Davidson’s “The Last Minstrel Show,” being performed at The Penumbra Theatre. The play is about the lynching of three African American circus workers in Duluth on June 15th, 1920.
September 17, 1992 -
September 17, 1992 -
September 19, 1992 - Banned books discussed are The Witches by Roald Dahl and Swan Lake by Margot Fonteyn.
September 19, 1992 - MPR’s Jim Wishner interviews Steven Gillon, author of " The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy." Gillon discusses and reads form is book.
September 21, 1992 -