Food & Fiction on a Stick: Notes from the Archivist
Food & Fiction on a Stick: Notes from the Archivist
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Are you gearing up for some food on a stick at the Minnesota State Fair? This is just one of the many phases in the production of Fiction on a Stick, an anthology of stories from Minnesota writers edited by Milkweed Publisher and CEO Daniel Slager. The publication of Fiction on a Stick in 2008 celebrated Minnesota’s sesquicentennial, a state with a distinguished literary history, from Sinclair Lewis to Louise Erdrich, and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Charles Baxter.
In his introduction to the anthology, Daniel Slager writes:
"If we see the Fair as an opportunity for people from all walks of life, from all corners of the state and beyond, to get together at one time, we also see this anthology as a similar celebration of the changing yet enduring face and personality of Minnesota. If the crowds filling Dan Patch Avenue every year show a different demographic—young and old, urban and rural—then Fiction on a Stick presents a heartwarming, diverse, and ultimately surprising literary portrait of the North Star State."
The manuscript and production materials for Fiction on a Stick are held by the Upper Midwest Literary Archives.
Keep an eye on Milkweed’s Instagram and Twitter on Thursdays for #throwbackthursday posts about our progress on the Prairie Poets and Press project and interesting finds. Follow the #PrairiePoetsUMN hashtag to see all the posts related to the project. Stay tuned!
