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 βMost Literate City in the United States,β 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.
July 18, 1980 -
July 23, 1980 -
July 30, 1980 -
August 6, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Paul Gruchow comments on βThe World of Oz.β
August 8, 1980 -
August 20, 1980 -
August 20, 1980 - Thomas Pearsall, professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, talks with MPR's Dan Olson about how the English language evolved and how it is still changing, with live listener participation.
August 22, 1980 -
August 27, 1980 -
August 28, 1980 - MPR's Tom Meersman talks with Irish-American author J. P. Donleavy, who discusses living in Ireland, his latest novel "Schults", and other matters. He's written eight novels but is best known for the first one, "The Ginger Man."