MN90: A Li’l Schulz
Before there was "Peanuts", there was "Li'l Folks." Britt Aamodt shakes out the funny pages for the story on Charles Schulz's early comic. [Read Transcript...]
Literature
MN90: Grand Master of Science Fiction
To readers of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Clifford D. Simak was a stellar science editor. But outside the office, he was a Grand Master of Science Fiction. Britt Aamodt remembers the author of the sci-fi classics “Way Station” and “City”. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: If You Want To Write
One of the seminal books on the psychological how-tos of writing emerged from a YWCA night class in Minneapolis in the depths of the Great Depression. Britt Aamodt finds out why Brenda Ueland's book still resonates nearly 80 years on. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: In Search of Troy
You can still see the Blegen name around Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota's Blegen Hall was named after professor Theodore Blegen. But Britt Aamodt takes us to Asia Minor where another Blegen, Carl, carved his name on the legendary walls of Troy. [Read Transcript...]