MN90: A Connecticut Yankee in Duluth
Mark Twain was born in Missouri, lived in Connecticut and traveled the world in 1895. One stop that year was Duluth, where the literary star's one-man show got less than stellar reviews. [Read Transcript...]
Literature
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...]
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...]