An Evening With Larry Woiwode
Celebrating the rich literary tradition of books about North Dakota.

Larry Woiwode, poet laureate of the state of North Dakota and bestselling author, was selected as the featured author by Read North Dakota in 2007. In this hour-long television program broadcast on Prairie Public, Woiwode talked about his critically acclaimed memoir "What I Think I Did" which centered around the events of the year of the disastrous 1996 flood.

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Associate poet laureate Rick Watson began the program by performing his song “Beyond the Bedroom Wall,” which is based on Woiwode’s novel of the same name. Woiwode later discussed his own return to North Dakota from New York City. Woiwode ascribed a strong importance to a sense of place not only in his own writing, but in the works of his favorite authors.

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On October 1, 2007, Edutech and the partners of Read North Dakota hosted two high school videoconference events with writer Larry Woiwode. Over 300 students from Mandan, Bismarck, Fargo, and LaMoure participated in the interactive events facilitated by North Dakota associate poet laureate Rick Watson.

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To find lists of other notable fiction about North Dakota, visit the Read North Dakota website at www.readnd.org

The Read North Dakota project is the joint efforts of a consortium of organizations including Prairie Public, the State Historical Society of North Dakota, the North Dakota Humanities Council, the North Dakota Library Association, and the North Dakota Council on the Arts.

Other Read North Dakota events you can view online

• 2008 - An Evening With James McPherson
  Historian James McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Battlecry of Freedom" is considered by many to be the definitive one-volume history of the Amerian Civil War. In his keynote address, the Valley City native discussed his research into Lincoln's evolution into the first moderm commander-in-chief.
• 2006 - An Evening With Leif Enger
  Leif Enger's critically praised best seller "Peace Like A River " was selected as Read North Dakota's featured novel. In his keynote address, Enger told tales of the charm cast on his writing by childhood experiences in North Dakota.