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The Disenchanted: On Budd Schulberg's Hollywood writing assignment with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A Q&A with Benn Schulberg, who is the son of Budd Schulberg, author of The Disenchanted , which was reissued in a University of Minnesota Press editi ...
Fitzgerald's past and the writing of The Great Gatsby
Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald in September 1921 in Dellwood, Minnesota, about a month before their daughter, Scottie, was born. Image from Creative ...
Ready for farmers market season? Find out when your favorite produce is in season and how to use it with tips from Beth Dooley.
Photographs by Mette Nielsen, from Minnesota's Bounty. BY BETH DOOLEY Has covered the local food scene in the Northern Heartland for 25 years; au ...
Mixed enthusiasm, fast growth: The early history of the St. Paul Union Depot.
The St. Paul Union Depot was among the busiest and best-known places in the city—one of the largest depots in the nation and St. Paul's link to the ...
Shona Jackson: Belonging and Native Caribbean Identity
Shona Jackson is the author of Creole Indigeneity , an investigation of how colonial descendants of colonial Guyana, collectively called Creoles, hav ...
How the great North Woods became such a huge tourist attraction—through planning and of course, obstacles in the road.
A party of four women canoeing near an island on Burntside Lake, August 4, 1940. Here, author Aaron Shapiro recalls his own memorable North Woods expe ...
Why do we have such faith in creativity?
William W. Caudill, "The Busted Box," New Schools for New Education, 1959, page 21. Despite its abstract nature, the term "creativity" is something of ...
On healing, settler colonialism, and Hawaiʻi: How can we use Idle No More's momentum to push for changes in education?
In The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School , Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua explores the paradoxes of reasserting Indigenous ...
Housing and race: More than meets the eye
What is this billboard not asking us to question? BY DIANNE HARRIS Architectural historian and director of the Illinois Program ...
Sustainability and North Dakota's oil boom
The North Dakota frontier from Bentley, ND, in 2007. The state is currently experiencing phenomenal growth, and Dean Hulse looks at the environmental ...