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 21, 1992 - "...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him" is a moving and powerful portrait of the life of a poor Mexican American boy and his migrant farm worker family as they struggle to adjust to life in American society.
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September 24, 1992 - Atallah Shabazz, eldest daughter of the late Malcolm X gives a Westminster Town Hall Forum speech entitled "Malcolm X: The Man, The Purpose and The Destiny."
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September 25, 1992 - Midmorning’s Jim Wishner interviews Susan Marie Swanson and Ken Meter, both of Hungry Mind Review, about the varied topics within children’s books. They also talk about their publication and it’s purpose.
September 25, 1992 - Essay on watching migrating hawks later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
September 26, 1992 - With the harvest moon, which usually arrives towards the end of September, the garden steps over into that sweet, melancholy season when ripe abundance mingles with auguries of the end anyone can read. Except, perhaps, some of the tropical annuals, which seem to bloom only more madly the closer the frost comes.
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October 1, 1992 - An interview with Jim Stowell abut his work in the Rain Forest in Brazil.