Taking Anna to the Zoo: Going to the Same Place A Lot, and Then Writing About What Happens Writers Katrina Vandenberg and John Reimringer frequently take their young daughter Anna to the Como Zoo and Conservatory. Katrina is working on a book about a girl named Anna, somewhat older than her daughter, who also frequently visits that zoo. We will ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Shea, Peter
Created:
2014-03-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Site & Incitement and the Bat of Minerva. A discussion with Peter Shea and Danny Robinson Clark, moderated by Ann Waltner.Peter Shea, Danny Clark and Ann Waltner discuss Peter's interview with Danny Robinson Clark — an actor, sort of retired, where he thinks about his craft. The discussion will range freely, from the substance of the interview...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson; Shea, Peter; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-11-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
10:50 - 11:00 a.m. Program Opens: (Singing) "When I was just..." Program Closes: Music Out "This has been a presentation of the Minnesota School of the Air" There was once a war between animals and the birds, so a serious debate took place as to which party the bat would join. But one thing they had not counted on was "the nature of the bat" as ...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Contributor:
Clark, Mattie
Created:
1973-11-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Will Weaver‘s debut novel was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his home town due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS-TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories, won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weaver, Will
Created:
2014-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Jodzio‘s work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the forthcoming Knockout (Soft Skull Press, Spring 2016).
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jodzio, John
Created:
2015-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Andreas Eckert is Director of re:work International Research Center, Berlin. The center investigates the history of relations between work and life course, between the images of work and the images of the life course;between rules guiding work and labour on the one hand, and the patterns which structure the life course and its phases o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Eckert, Andreas
Created:
2014-11-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Samantha Bohrman is a writer based in Northeast Minneapolis: "Shortly after graduating from law school, I had three children and began writing novels. I have never looked back, though I suspect my husband has. When I’m not writing you can probably find me at Target forgetting to buy broccoli and shopping for scarves I don’t need. If it’s a...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohrman, Samantha
Created:
2016-02-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, talks to Peter Shea about her writing, her inspiration, her Hmong identity, and her co-founding of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Yang, Kao Kalia
Created:
2008-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William LaFleur talks to Peter Shea about differences between the beliefs of Buddhist and Judaeo-Christian societies with respect to issues such as abortion and organ donation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LaFleur, William
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
