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.
March 22, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 23, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 27, 1979 -
March 27, 1979 - In this Options program, author N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian, describes and discusses his interest in the Native American oral traditions.
March 28, 1979 - A news feature on John J. Koblas' book, "A Guide to F Scott Fitzgerald's St Paul: A Traveler's Companion to His Homes & Haunts."
March 28, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan presents Playwright’s Laboratory, which showcases playwright Nancy Beckett’s “Clothes Conscious,” a drama written especially for radio, with assistance from the Minneapolis Playwrights' Lab. Following radio play, Barbara Field, of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis; Bob Collins, drama critic for the Minnesota Daily Arts and Entertainment section; and listeners, share impressions and ask questions of playwright.
April 4, 1979 -
April 10, 1979 - Phillip Berrigan, former Jesuit priest and antiwar activist, speaking to a Moorhead audience. Berrigan also talks with KCCM reporter John Ydstie about nuclear disarmament, American militarism and his views of American society today.
April 11, 1979 - A profile of Minnesota poet and writer Paul Grukow. Program is a presentation of his work “The Tramp."It also includes commentary and music elements.
April 17, 1979 - Vine Deloria Jr., a political science professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Native American activist, attorney, and author, speaking at the eighth annual Putnam Lectureship in Social Ethics at Hamline University. Deloria Jr’s address was titled "The Natural Philosophical Tradition." Following his speech, Deloria took questions from the audience.