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.
December 10, 1981 - Complete unaired outtakes compilation of Midday broadcast of a Chimera Playwright Conference panel discussion looking at the treatment of playwrights in American theater. Participants include Edward Albee, Tom Dunn, and Chris Kirkland. Event is moderated by Dale Huffington, Chimera managing director. Outtakes include introduction, audience questions and all segments with University of Minnesota Professor of Theater Lee Adey.
December 11, 1981 - Dr. Morton Cohen, professor of English at Columbia University, speaks at St. John's University in Collegeville. Cohen’s address is titled "The Alice Books, Why They Endure" and part of celebration on the 150th anniversary of Carroll's birth.
January 1, 1982 - MPR’s Connie Goldman goes to the Nantucket to visit poet Linda Pastan. The two talk and read poetry along the sea shore.
January 4, 1982 - With a federal study released indicating that American children today know less about music and consider art less important than the students in the early 1970s, MPR’s Bob Aronson talks with Margaret Hasse, director of the Minnesota Alliance for Arts and Education, to get her reaction on how it relates to Minnesota.
February 27, 1982 - Weekend host Dale Connelly talks with Ken Cooper, author of the book Always Bear Left...and Other Ways to Get Things Done Faster and Easier. Cooper details various tips.
April 10, 1982 - MPR’s Dale Connelly interviews author Fern Kupfer about her severely mentally and physically handicapped son Zachariah and her book Before and After Zachariah.
April 11, 1982 - NPR’s Connie Goldman interviews author and poet James Dickey, who shares his thoughts on writing.
April 17, 1982 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Dale Connelly has a conversation with Margaret Atwood, author of Bodily Harm. Atwood comments on the differential power and aggressive dynamics between men and women.
May 16, 1982 - NPR’s Connie Goldman interviews writer and historian Studs Terkel.
May 29, 1982 - On this Firing Line program, host William F. Buckley Jr. discusses the late President Lyndon Johnson with the author Robert Caro, who has written a biography of Johnson.