Repeatedly 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. This curation presents broadcasts over the decades of writer’s voices in form of speech, interview, and discussion.
July 11, 1968 - A conversation with Eugene McCarthy at St. Johns, in Collegeville. Gary Eichten and Pat Smith asked McCarthy questions as he was taking a break from his presidential campaign.
April 4, 1971 - Benjamin Spock speaks at Augsburg College. Topics of Spock’s address include politics, social injustice, environment, and health. Address was in honor of the Minnesota Eight, sponsored by the Minnesota Eight Defense Committee.
May 7, 1972 - Dr. Rollo May, an author, theologian, and psychoanalyst, speaks at a gathering in memory of Paul Tillich. He reminisces on his relationship with Tilich and delivers his address Love and the Daimonic.
May 30, 1972 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews Jewish American author Meyer Levin about his book The Settlers. This is part 1 of interview (part 2 aired on May 31st, 1972).
May 31, 1972 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews Jewish American author Meyer Levin about his book, The Settlers. This is part 2 of interview (part 1 was aired on May 30th, 1972).
October 5, 1972 - MPR’s Martin Granger interviews author Benjamin Spock about his writing and political criticism of him from individuals such as Spiro T. Agnew and Norman Vincent Peale.
January 11, 1973 - MPR’s Hugh Morgan interviews author and historian on his book Indian Wars. Morgan also talks about Bureau of Indian Affairs and American Indian Movement.
March 4, 1973 - On this Forum program, Paul Scofield reads Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn acceptance speech for Nobel Prize in Literature.
May 29, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews Peter Mass, author of The Valachi Papers and Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System. This recording was made available through a grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
May 31, 1973 - This MER Special presents journalist Carl Bernstein, co-winner of the Pulitzer prize, speaking at the University of Minnesota. Bernstein's speech is on Watergate and the current state of political affairs. Following address, Bernstein answers questions from the audience.