What distinguishes the Twin Cities from other metropolitan areas in terms of literary arts?
Accessibility. One of the programs I run is called the Carol Connolly Reading Series, in which up-and-coming new writers read with Pulitzer Prize winners, writers for the New Yorker, Minnesota Book Award winners—and all of these people are local. Great writers are not under glass here; they are mentors and supporters and true members of our local literary community. The Twin Cities is a great place to be a writer.
