MN90: Zen and the House on Otis Avenue
One of the biggest nonfiction books to come out of the 1970s was spurred by a road trip. Britt Aamodt traces its origins to a house in St. Paul. [Read Transcript...]
Literature
MN90: Echoes of the Great War
Ernest Hemingway wrote a novel based on his experiences in World War I. But Minnesota's Amy Robbins Ware, according to producer Britt Aamodt, chose to tell her war story in verse. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: The Death of Superman
Dan Jurgens had a Clark Kent childhood in Ortonville, Minnesota. But Britt Aamodt reveals that Jurgens's relationship with the Man of Steel didn’t end there. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: Love Medicine
Before Louise Erdrich became a celebrated author, she was a girl from Little Falls, Minnesota. And before Erdrich wrote her first novel, says producer Britt Aamodt, she wrote the short story that become that novel. [Read Transcript...]