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 17, 1980 - Cricket Theater in Minneapolis, report on John Orlock's play Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs.
March 18, 1980 - Dan Olson interviews Judith Younger of the University of Minnesota Department of Elementary Education. They discuss issues concerning children's literature, including the use of social themes and the censorship of some works. Call-in show.
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March 24, 1980 - Interview with John Orlock, resident playwright for the Cricket Theater in Minneapolis. His latest work is called "Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs", which opened recently at the Cricket.
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