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 10, 1978 - R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller addresses the Minnesota Press Club on Buckminster Fuller Day in Minnesota, so proclaimed by Governor Rudy Perpich.
July 29, 1978 - On this Saturday Public Affairs program, a broadcast of poet John Beecher delivering a commencement address at Worthington Community College. Program also includes Kim Hodgson interviewing Beecher.
August 24, 1978 - Author James Michener speaks before the National Press Club, discussing the state of the novel and talks extensively about many contemporary American writers.
September 18, 1978 - A broadcast of a National Town Meeting, where author and radio commentator Lowell Thomas talks about his experiences as an adventurer and journalist.
October 12, 1978 - Conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. offers his view on a variety of topics, including the economy, as part of remarks made at the National Town Meeting.
October 23, 1978 - An interview with poet and playwright Honor Moore.
October 23, 1978 - The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy is celebrated in a special radio profile produced by Radio Moscow. Includes readings from Tolstoy's works.
November 13, 1978 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews May Sarton, Belgian American novelist, poet, and memoirist. Sarton discusses the act of solitude that helped her create her best writing. Segment includes Sarton reading one of her poems.
January 15, 1979 - Alex Haley discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots: The Saga Of An American Family at a National Press Club luncheon. He wrote most of the novel in a Club office.
February 14, 1979 - Ossie Davis, actor and author, talks about Black oral tradition at the Science Auditorium on the campus of the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth. Event was held on March 29, 1978.