Don Swaim's online audio conversations with the best-known writers of three decades
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Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Fool's Progress, 1988
Peter Ackroyd, [Booker Prize] author of Dickens, 1991
Alice Adams, [O. Henry Lifetime Achievement Award] Superior Women, 1984
Alice Adams, Return Trips, 1985
Alice Adams, Caroline's Daughter, 1991
Douglas Adams, [Hugo Award] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,1983
Douglas Adams, Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1989
Richard Adams, celebrated British fantasy writer, Watership Down, 1985
Vassily Aksyonov, [Russian-born dissident] The Island of Crimea, 1983
Vassily Aksyonov, The Burn, 1984
Alfred Alcorn, [English-born author of the Murder in the Museum of Man series]Vestments 1988
Brian Aldiss, [science-fiction legend] Helliconia Summer, 1984
Brian Aldiss, Seasons in Flight, 1986
The American Mercury, [Facsimile edition of the most influential magazine of the 1920s] with editor Richard Russell, 1984
Martin Amis, [son of Sir Kingsley Amis] Money, 1985
Martin Amis, London Fields, 1990
Maya Angelou, [Pulitzer Prize] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Now Sheba Sings the Song, 1987
Piers Anthony, [famous for his novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth] Robot Adept, Out of Phaze, 1988 [long form version unavailable]
Alfred Appel Jr. [reading photographs] Signs of Life, 1987
Jeffrey Archer, [British Parliamentarian imprisoned in a sex/political scandal] The Prodigal Daughter, 1983
Jeffrey Archer, As the Crow Flies, 1991
Eve Arnold, [celebrated photographer] Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
Isaac Asimov, Hugo Award, [celebrated for his the Foundation novels] Fantastic Voyage II, 1987
James Atlas, Bellow: A Biography, The Great Pretender,1986
Margaret Atwood, [Booker Prize] The Handmaid's Tale, [celebrated as one of the greatest dystopian novels ever written] 1986
Louis Auchincloss, [National Medal of Arts] The Rector of Justin, Diary of a Yuppie, 1986
Jean Auel, [celebrated for her Earth's Children series set in prehistoric Europe], The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
Paul Auster, [his books translated into more than 40 languages] The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, 1987
Nancy Axelrod, [editor] the classic Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew books, 1987
(B)
John Baker, editor-in-chief, Publishers Weekly, [bible of the publishing industry] 1991
Russell Baker, [Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist] Growing Up, Norton Book of Light Verse, 1986
Baker Street Street Irregulars, Sherlock Holmes literary society, with Julian Wolf, president
Ian Ballantine, [paperback book pioneer] founder of Bantam, Ballantine Books, 1984
Bill Ballantine, [famed Ringling Bros circus clown] Clown Alley 1982
Russell Banks, Affliction, 1989
Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter, 1991
John Banville, [Booker Prize]The Book of Evidence, 1990
Nick Bantok, [writer, illustrator] Griffin and Sabine books, 1992
Amiri Baraka, [Leroy Jones], controversial poet, activist, 1984
Clive Barker, The Inhuman Condition, 1986
Clive Barker, The Damnation Game, 1987
Mary Barnard, [poet] Time and the White Tigress, 1986
Robert Barnard, [mystery writer] School for Murder, 1984
Julian Barnes, [Booker Prize] Talking it Over, 1991
Wilton Barnhardt, Gospel, 1993
John Barth, [National Book Award, PEN/Malamud Award] Sabbatical, 1982, [CBS-FM Crosstalk]
John Barth, Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, 1991
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, [new edition edited by Justin Kaplan] 1993
Graeme Base, [children's author, illustrator] Animalia, 1987
Rick Bass, [PEN/Nelson Algren Award Special Citation for fiction] Winter, 1991
Richard Bausch, [PEN/Malamud Award] Violence, 1992
Glen Baxter, [quirky English cartoonist] The Impending Gleam, Atlas, 1983
The Beats, with William Burroughs, Junky, Queer, 1985
The Beats, with Ann Charters, editor of The Portable Beat Reader, 1992
The Beats with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, [poet, founder of City Lights Books, San Francisco] Cony Island of the Mind, Love in the Days of Rage, 1988
The Beats, with Allen Ginsberg, leading figure of the Beat Generation, Collected Poems 1947-80, 1985
The Beats, with Gary Snyder, environmental activist associated with the Beat poets, [Pulitzer, American Book Award] The Practice of the Wild, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, 1991
The Beats with novelist Robert Stone who describes his days with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and their relationship with the Beat writers, 1992
Ann Beattie, [PEN/Malamud Award] Love Always, 1985
Ann Beattie, What was Mine, 1991
Ludwig Bemelmans, [Madeleine picture books for children] with widow Madeleine Bemelmans
Carl Bernstein, [journalist of Watergate fame] Loyalties, 1989
Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook, with editor Linda Henry, 1989
Neil Bissondath, Trinidadian-Canadian author, A Casual Brutality, 1989
Ambrose Bierce, with Bierce scholar Jack Matthews of Ohio Uiversity debating Don Swaim on the myth and mind of Bierce, author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," The Devil's Dictionary, 2010
Harry Blackstone Jr., Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion, [introduction by Ray Bradbury] 1985
Ed Bliss, [distinguished CBS newswriter] author of Now the News, 10-14-91
Lawrence Block, [Edgar Award] A Stab in the Dark. Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, [Block takes the interviewer through the process of his famous Write For Your Life seminars] 1984
Roy Blount, Jr., [humorist] What Men Don't Tell Women, 1984
Roy Blount, Jr. Not Exactly What I Had in Mind, 1985
Roy Blount, Jr. Now, Where Were We?, 1989
Roy Blount, Jr. First Hubby, 1990
Judy Blume, [A Library of Congress Living Legend, National Book Foundation medal for distinguished contribution to American letters] Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Smart Women, 1984
Judy Blume, Letters to Judy, 1986
Barrington Boardman, From Harding To Hiroshima, 5-23-88
Magda Bogin, [translator] illustrated edition of Don Quixote, 1991
Book of Kells, with Urs Duggelin, publisher of a facsimile edition of the medieval Irish masterpiece, 1990
Books -- Banning, with William Noble, author of Bookbanning in America: Who Bans Books? And Why? 1990
Books -- Collecting, with Jack Matthews, author of Collecting Rare Books for Pleasure and Profit, 1984
Books -- Cookbooks. with New York Times food writer Craig Claiborne, Southern Cooking, 1987
Books -- Cookbooks, with Linda Harvey, editor, Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook, 1989
Books -- First Editions Library, [reprinting facsimile editions of classic books] with Henry Reath, publisher
Books -- The Modern Library, with Christopher Cerf, editor of new editions of The Modern Library, 1992
Books -- Mystery Fiction, with Jane Chelius, editor, Pocket Books, 1992
Books -- Paperbacks, with Ian Ballantine [paperback book pioneer] founder of Bantam, Ballantine Books, 1984
Books -- Paperbacks, with Kenneth Davis, Two-Bit Culture [history of paperback books] 1984
Books -- Paperbacks, with Ray Walters, New York Times columnist, Paperback Talk, 1986
Books -- Travel Guides, with Fodor Travel Guides editorial director Michael Spring, 1989
Books -- Readers Digest Condensed Books, with editor John Zinsser, 1986
Books -- The World Alamac, with editor Mark Hoffman, 1987
Book of the Month Club, wih Gloria Norris, chief editor, BMOC, and author of Looking for Bobby, 1985
Malcolm Bosse, The Warlord, Fire in Heaven, 1986
Malcolm Bosse, Mister Touch, 1991
Vance Bourjaily, [distinguished novelist, educator] The Great Fake Book, 1987
Margaret Bourke-White, [famed photo-journalist] with biographer Vickie Goldberg, 1986
Brian Boyd, biographer of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, 1991
William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, 1985
T. Coraghessan Boyle, [O. Henry Award, PEN/Faulkner Award] Greasy Lake, 1985
T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End, 1987
T. Coraghessan Boyle, East is East, 1990
Ray Bradbury, [National Medal of Arts, Nebula Award, Emmy (Halloween Tree) National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, special citation by Pulitzer Prize jury, Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association Grandmaster] Green Shadows, White Whale, 1992
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 anniversary, 1993
Nathaniel Branden, [Ayn Rand acolyte] Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand, 1989
Barbara Branden, [Ayn Rand acolyte, husband of Nathaniel] The Passion of Ayn Rand,1986
Jimmy Breslin, [New York Daily News and Newsday columnist] biographer of Damon Runyon, Damon Runyon, A Life, 1991
Simon Brett, [British crime writer] Dead Giveaway, 1986
Simon Brett, Mrs. Pargeter's Package, 1991
Andre Brink, [South African author] Writing in a State of Seige, 1985
Harold Brodkey, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, 1988
Harold Brodkey, Runaway Soul [this novel became a work of legend, as it took 32 years to complete, creaselessly revised and delayed], 1992
Larry Brown, [Oxford, Mississippi, fireman turned author, winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction] Dirty Work, 1989
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle [early lesbian novel, rubyfruit a term used for female genitals], Bingo, 1988
Rosellen Brown, [O. Henry Prize] Civil Wars, Before and After, 1992
Susan Brownmiller, [feminist journalist, author, activist] Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Waverly Place [This novel is based on a sensational Greenwich Village murder case involving a fatally beaten child, Lisa Steinberg, and Hedda Nussbaum, the battered woman who eventually testified against the killer, lawyer Joel Steinberg], 1989
Edna Buchanan, Pulitzer Prize, Miami Herald crime reporter, Nobody Lives Forever, 1990
Art Buchwald, Pulitzer Prize, Washington Post columnist] While Reagan Slept, 1983
Christopher Buckley, [novelist, humorist, son of William F. Buckley] White House Mess, 1986
William F. Buckley, [National Review founder, the Blackford Oakes spy novels] Right Reason, 1985
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Kingdom of the Wicked, 1985 [long form version unavailable]
Martyn Burke, [Canadian thriller writer] The Commissar's Report, 1984
Ben Lucian Burman, [author of the Catfish bend stories for children] Steamboat Round the Bend, 1983
William Burroughs, [major figure of the Beat Generation] Place of Dead Roads, 1984
William Burroughs, [interviewed in an abandoned YMCA building on The Bowery called "The Bunker"] Junky, Queer, 1985
Frederick Busch, PEN/Malamud Award, Closing Arguments, 1991
John Buskina, Alfred Gingold, [humorists] co-authors of Snooze, a New Yorker parody, 1986
Robert Olen Butler, [Pulitzer Prize] On Distant Ground, 1985
Christopher Byron, The Fanciest Dive, 1986
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Ethan Canin, Emperor of the Air, 1988
Mary Cantwell, [journalist, memorist] American Girl, 1992
Robert Caro, [Pulitzer Prize] The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, 1974 [audio currently unavailable]
Truman Capote, with Gerald Clarke, Capote biographer, 1988
Truman Capote, with Lawrence Grobel, author of Conversations with Capote, 1985
Truman Capote, Capote Memorial Service, Shubert Theater, New York, Sep. 25, 1984
Truman Capote, with Gordon Lish, author of Dear Mr. Capote, a tour de force in which a psychopath who claims to have murdered 22 woman asks Truman Capote to write his story, 1983
Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, Indian Country, 1987
James Carroll, [priest turned novelist] Prince of Peace, 1986
Jim Carroll, [poet, rock musician] The Book of Nods, 1986
Lewis Carroll, with Edward Guiliano, editor of essays on Lewis Carroll, A Celebration
Raymond Carver, Cathedral, 1983
Raymond Carver, Ultramarine, 1986
Raymond Carver, with widow Tess Gallagher, Carver Country [words by Raymond Carver], 1990
John Casey, [National Book Award] Spartina, 1990
William Caunitz, [New York City cop turned crime writer] Exceptional Clearance, 1991
Censorship, with Edward de Grazia, [renowned First Amendment attorney] author of Girls Lean Back Everywhere, 1992
Censorship, with Barney Rossett, Grove Press. Courageously fought censorship in America by publishing D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and William Burrough's Naked Lunch -- and beat the censors.
Christopher Cerf, Pentagon Catalog, [written with Henry Beard] 1986
Christopher Cerf, Free to Be A Family, 1988
Christopher Cerf, The Modern Library, 1992
Miguel Cervantesl, Don Quixote, illustrated edition translated by Magda Bogin, 1991
Charlotte Chandler, [biographer of Groucho Marx and many others] The Ultimate Seduction, 1984
Ann Charters, Portable Beat Reader, 1992
Samuel Charters, [music historian] Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn, 1984
Charles Dickens, with Peter Ackroyd, author of Dickens, 1991
Thomas Chastain, [crime writer] Who Killed the Robins Family? 1986
Benjamin Cheever, [son of John Cheever]The Plagiarist, 1992
John Cheever, Don Swaim with two on-air obituary reports on Cheever's death, 1982
John Cheever, with daughter Susan on John Cheever & writing, 1985
Susan Cheever, Home Before Dark, 1984
Susan Cheever, Treetops, 1991
Jane Chelius, [Mystery Books] editor Pocket Books, 1992
Children's Book of the Month Club with publisher David Allender, 1991
Mark Childress, World Made of Fire, 1984
Mark Childress, V for Victor, 1990
Carolyn Chute, Beans of Egypt, Maine 1986
Carolyn Chute, Letourneau's Used Auto Parts 1988
Agatha Christie, with biographer Janet Morgan, 1985
Sandra Cisneros, [National Medal of Arts, American Book Award] The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, 1991
Tom Clancy, Hunt for Red October, 1984
Tom Clancy, Red Storm Rising, 1986
Mary Higgins Clark, [Grand Master, Mystery Writers of America] Stillwatch, 1984
Mary Higgins Clark, Weep No More My Lady, 1987
Mary Higgins Clark, While My Pretty One Sleeps, 1989
Gerald Clarke, biographer of Truman Capote, 1988
James Clavell, [Australian-born screenwriter, novelist] Tai-Pan, Shogun, Whirlwind, [screenplay for the original film version of The Fly] 1986
Cliff Notes - Parody, from Spy magazine, author Paul Simms satirizes so called "Brat Pack" novels by Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jill Eisenstadt, etc., 1989
Annie Cohen-Solal, biographer of Jean Paul Sartre, A Life, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
Classics Illustrated with Rick Obadiah, publisher, Classics Illustrated, [idle chitchat about radio vs TV] comic books, 1990
Lester Cole, [screenwriter, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten], Hollywood Red, 1982
Larry Collins, Fall From Grace, 1985
Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate, Prizzi's Honor, 1982
Richard Condon, Trembling Upon Rome, 1986
Richard Condon, Emperor of America, 1990
Bernard Connors, [Paris Review publisher] Dancehall, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Greg Constantine, [artist] Vincent Van Gogh Visits New York, 1983
Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, Prince of Tides, 1986
Robin Cook, [medical thriller writer] Godplayer, 1983
Robin Cook, Outbreak, 1987
Robert Coover, Gerald's Party, 1986
Aaron Copland with Copland biographer Vivian Perliss, Copland 1900 Through 1932 & Copland Since 1943, 1990
Avery Corman, Kramer vs. Kramer, Fifty, 1987
Gay Courter, Code Ezra, 1986
Robert Creeley, [associated with the Black Mountain Poets, Bollingen Prize, New York State Poet laureate] The Collected Prose, 1984
Harry Crews, [cult figure associated with darkly comic novels, known for his quote: "If you want to write about all sweetness and light and that stuff, go get a job at Hallmark."] The Knockout Artist, Body, 1990
Michael Crichton, Electronic Life [early book on the practicality of personal computers] 1983
Michael Crichton, Sphere, 1987
Michael Crichton, Travels, 1988
Michael Crichton, Rising Sun, 1992
Michael Cunningham, [Pulitzer Prize, PEN/Faulkner Award] Home at the End of the World, The Hours, 1991
The Curious George stories, [created for children by H.A. and Margaret Rey] with producer-director Alan Shalleck, 1984
Ellen Currie, Available Light, [praised first novel] 1986
Richard Curtis, [literary agent who tells all] Beyond the Best Seller, 1989
Clive Cussler, [Dirk Pitt thrillers] Cyclops, 1986
(D)
Janet Dailey, [prolific romance novelist] Calder Born, Calder Bred, 1985
Tom Dardas, The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer, 1991
Robertson Davies, [First Canadian author named as Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters] What's Bred in the Bone, Lyre of Orpheus, 1989
Richard Harding Davis, [pioneering journalist] with biographer Athur Lubow, author of The Reporter Who Would Be King, 1992
John Dean, [Nixon Watergate figure] author of Lost Honor, 1982
Edward de Grazia, [renowned First Amendment attorney] author of Girls Lean Back Everywhere, 1992
Nelson Demille, [president of the Mystery Writers of America] Word of Honor, 1985
Robert DeMott, [John Steinbeck scholar] editor of Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath, 1989
Tomie DePaola, [writer, illustrator of children's books, Children's Literature Legacy Award] Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose, 1987
James Dickey, Eighteenth U.S. Poet Laureate, National Book Award, [CBS-FM Crosstalk broadcast], 1981
James Dickey, nature of poetry, 1983
James Dickey, 1986 [rare phone interview] on Dickey's desire to fly in space]
James Dickey, Deliverance, Alnilam, 1987
Charles Dickens, with biographer Peter Ackroyd, author of Dickens, 1991
Joan Didion, [National Book Award, National Medal of Arts] The White Album, Play It as It Lays, Miami, 1987
Walt Disney. with Leonard Mosley, biographer, Disney's World, 1985
E. L. Doctorow, [immediately following his winning the American Book Award for World's Fair], 1986
Ivan Doig, This House of Sky, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, 1987
J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, Are You Listening Rabbi Löw? 1988
Ariel Dorfman, [Chilean-American novelist, playwright] Last Waltz in Santiago, 1988
Lou Dorfsman, [celebrated graphic designer] author of Dorfsman & CBS, 1987
Michael Dorris, [married to Louise Erdrich] The Broken Chord, 1989
Michael Dorris, Morning Girl, 1992
Margaret Drabble, A Natural Curiosity, 1989
Bruce Duffy, [debut author] The World as I Found It, 1987
Urs Duggelin, [publisher] facsimile edition of the Irish medieval masterpiece The Book of Kells, 1990
David Douglas Duncan, [famed photojournalist] collaborates with amateur photographer George Forss on New York/New York, 1984
Katherine Dunn, [literary cult figure] Geek Love, 1989 [long form version unavailable]
John Gregory Dunne, [screenwriter, novelist, married to Joan Didion] The Red White and Blue, True Confessions, 1988 [long form version unavailable]
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Richard Eberhart, [Pulitzer Prize-winning poet] New and Selected Poems, 1980
Stanley Elkin, The Magic Kingdom, 1985
Stanley Elkin, [after being received as a New York Public Library Literary lion], The Rabbi of Lud, 1987
Stanley Elkin, The MacGuffin1991
Aaron Elkins, [Edgar Award] Icy Clutches, 1990 [long form version unavailable]
Bret Easton Ellis, [so-called literary Brat Pack member] Less Than Zero, American Psycho, 1986
James Ellroy, [Grand Master, Mystery Writers of America] The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, 1987
James Ellroy, White Heat, 1992
Amos Elon, [Israeli journalist] author of The Israelis, 1985
Jason Epstein, [publisher, editorial director of Random House] The Reader's Catalog, 1989
Paul Erdman, [financial thriller writer] The Panic of 89, 1987
Harold Evans, [journalist, editor, publisher, The Sunday Times (UK)] Good Times, Bad
Times, 1985
(F)
Howard Fast, [Defiant ex-Communist Party member imprisoned for refusing to name names to the House Un-American Activities Committee & blacklisted] The Outsider, Spartacus, 1984
Howard Fast, The Immigrant's Daughter, 1985
Howard Fast, Being Red, 1990
Jonathan Fast, [son of Howard Fast] Golden Fire, 1986 [long form version unavailable]
Jonathan Fast, The Jade Stalk, 1988 [long form version unavailable]
John Henry Faulk, [CBS radio personality, victim of McCarthy-era blacklist] Fear on Trial, [performer on the cornball TV comedy show "Hee Haw"] 1983
Irvin Faust, Year of the Hot Jock, 1985
Charles Fecher, [editor] The Diary of H. L. Mencken, 1989
Mike Feder, New York Son, 1989 [long form version unavailable]
Peter Feibleman, author of Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman, [Feibleman was the playwright's companion in the latter years of her life] 1984
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, [poet, founder of City Lights Books, San Francisco] Cony Island of the Mind, Love in the Days of Rage, 1988
Elliot Figman, [editor] Poets & Writers magazine, 1990
First Editions Library [reprinting facsimile editions of classic books] with Henry Reath, publisher
Frances Fitzgerald, [Pulitzer Prize] Cities on a Hill, 1986
Fannie Flagg, [actress, comedian, author] Fried Green Tomatoes, 1987
Thomas Fleming, [historian, novelist] Spoils of War, 1987
James Thomas Flexner, author of definitive, multi-volume biography of George Washington, 1982
Stuart Flexner, [editor] Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 1987
Maria Flook, Family Night, 1993
Arthur Flowers, De Mojo Blues, [in studio Flowers plays the blues harp -- harmonica -- he uses to accompany the story. 1986
Ken Follet, [British author of thrillers, Grand Master Mystery Writers of America] Eye of the Needle, On Wings of Eagles, 1983
Frederick Forsyth, [British Crime Writers Association winner of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award] Day of the Jackal. The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, 1984
Fodor Travel Guides, with editorial director Michael Spring, 1989
Forgeries, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, by Linda Sillitoe, staff writer for the Deseret News, [notorious murdery-forgery case involving Mark Hoffman, forger of documents related to Mormon history, who killed two people in bomb blasts to cover up his deeds] 1988
John Fowles, [British novelist of international repute] The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, A Maggot, 1985
Claire Francis, Night Sky, 1983
Dick Francis, Twice Shy, 1983
Dick Francis, The Danger, 1984
Dick Francis, Break In, 1986
Dick Francis, The Edge, 1989
Antonia Fraser, [Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, widow of Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter] The Weaker Vessel, 1984 [long form
version unavailable]
Ian Frazier, [New Yorker staff writer] Great Plains, 1989
Cynthia Freeman, Illusions of Love, 1985 [long form
version unavailable]
Stan Freberg, [radio humorist] It Only Hurts When I Laugh, 1989
Bruce Jay Friedman, Tokyo Woes, 1985
Fred Friendly [interviewed with Gil Gross], CBS News President, Minnesota Rag,1981
Lewis Burke Frumkes, How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children, 1983
Carlos Fuentes, [Mexican National Prize for Arts and Sciences, National Order of Merit of France] The Old Gringo, The Buried Mirror, 1992
Paul Fussell, [literary historian, winner of the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award] The Great War and Modern Memory, Class, 1983
(G)
Mary Gaitskill, Two Girls Fat and Thin, 1991
Tess Gallagher, [poet, married to Raymond Carver] The Lover of Horses, 1986
Tess Gallagher, Carver Country (by Raymond Carver), 1990
Norman Garbo, Gaynor's Passion, 1985
John Gardner (US), [interviewed with Gil Gross] Grendel, On Moral Fiction 1981
John Gardner (UK), Role of Honor (James Bond novel) 1984
John Gardner (UK), The Secret Generations, 1985
Art Garfunkel, [of msical duo Simon & Garfunkel] Still Water (poems), 1989
William Gass, Habitations of the Word, 1985
Jean Louis Gassee, [Apple Computer development chief] The Third Apple, [Personal Computers & the Cultural Revolution] 1984
David Gates, [novelist, senior writer, editor Newsweek] Jernigan, 1991
Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson [First published novel by a black in U.S. 1857] 1983 [NOTE: WCBS Reporter Jane Tillman Irving sat in on this interview]
T. Gertler, Elbowing the Seducer [Trudy Gertler, author of devastating roman a clef about New York's publishing world, 1984
Paul Gervais, [visual artist, writer] Extraordinary People, 1992
Brendan Gill, [New Yorker writer] biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright, Many Masks, 1987
Allen Ginsberg,[leading figure of the Beat Generation] Collected Poems 1947-80, 1985
Robert Giroux, [publisher, Farrar Straus Giroux] on death of Bernard Malamud, 1986
Gail Godwin, [Southern-born writer of fiction, autobiography] The Finishing School, 1985
Gail Godwin, A Southern Family, 1987
Gail Godwin, Father Melancholy's Daughter, 1991
Herbert Gold, [Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction] Fathers, 1984
Herbert Gold, A Girl of Forty, 1986
Vicki Goldberg, The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives, 1992
Gunter Grass, [Nobel Prize] The Call of the Toad, 1992
Father Andrew Greeley, [priest-sociologist, known for his steamy, popular novels] The Cardinal Sins, Lord of the Dance, 1984
Lester Goran, [Florida-based novelist, educator] Mrs. Beautiful, 1986
Lois Gordon, American Chronicle 1920-1989, 1990
Ralph Graves, [Managing Editor of Life, Editorial Director of Time] Share of Honor, 1989
Gerald Green, The Last Angry Man, To Brooklyn with Love, Not in Vain, 1984
Dan Greenburg, Suzanne O'Malley, How to Avoid Love and Marriage, 1983
Dan Greenburg, Confessions of a Pregnant Father, 1986
Dan Greenburg, The Nanny, 1987
Bob Greene, [Chicago Tribune columnist] Cheeseburgers, 1985
Graham Greene, with biographer Norman Sherry, Life of Graham Greene Vol. I 1904-1939, 1989
Lewis Grizzard, [humor columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution] My Daddy Was a Pistol and I'm a Son of a Gun, 1986
Lewis Grizzard, When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care, 1987
Martin Gross [conservative journalist, opponent of big government] The Red President, 1987
Edward Guiliano, [editor] essays on Lewis Carroll, A Celebration, 1982
Sir Alec Guinness, [famed actor] Blessings in Diguise, a memoir, 1986
Allan Gurganus, [O. Henry Award, Lambda Literary Award] Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, 1989
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Arthur Hailey, [British-Canadian author of bestsellers] Airport, Hotel, The Evening News, 1990
Donald Hall, [14th U.S. Poet Laureate] Here at Eagle Pond 1991 [long form version unavailable]
Pete Hamill, [George Polk Award-winning journalist, editor New York Daily News, Post] Tokyo Sketches, 1993
Ian Hamilton, [British poet, biographer, critic] Robert Lowell: A Biography, 1982
Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, 1988
Dean Hammond, [publisher, mapmaker] Hammond maps, 1992
Barry Hannah, Bats Out of Hell, 1993
Ron Hansen, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 1983
Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew books, with editor Nancy Axelrod, 1987
John Hartford, [composer, performer] Steamboat in a Cornfield [performs his own songs including "Gentle on My Mind," live in studio], 1986
Andrew Harvey, [British-born writer of mysticism] A Journey in Ladakh, 1983
Andrew Harvey, One Last Mirror, 1985
Andrew Harvey, The Web, 1987
William Least Heat-Moon, [said to be of Osage ancestry] Blue Highways, 1983
William Least Heat-Moon, aftermath of Blue Highways, 1984
William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth, 1991
Ernest Hebert, [New Hampshire Darby novel series] Whisper My Name, 1985
Joseph Heller, Catch 22, God Knows,1984
Joseph Heller, [with Speed Vogel] No Laughing Matter, 1986
Hellman Lillian, with Peter Feibleman, author of Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman [Feibleman was the playwright's companion in the latter years of her life] 1984
Lillian Hellman , with biographer William Wright, author of Lillian Hellman, the Image, the Woman, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale, 1983
Mark Helprin, [responds to a New York Times article casting doubt on Helprin's veracity], Soldier of the Great War, 1991
Ernest Hemingway, with biographer A. E. Hotchner, who describes his 14-year relationship with Hemingway], Choice People, 1984
Ernest Hemingway, with with Tom Jencks of Scribner's, editor of Hemingway's final major book, The Garden of Eden, 1986 [long form version unavailable]
Ernest Hemingway, with publisher Charles Scribner Jr. on the issuance of new Hemingway postage stamp, 1989
Jack Hemingway, [son of Ernest Hemingway], Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman, 1986
Linda Henry, [editor] Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook, 1989
Nat Hentoff, [Village Voice columnist, jazz critic] Boston Boy, 1986
Michael Herr, [war correspondent, Esquire] Dispatches, Walter Winchell, [co-wrote screenplay for Full Metal Jacket] 1990
Seymour Hersh, [Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, George Polk Award] Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
William Heyen, [poet, educator] The Swastika Poems, Long Island Light, Erika, 1984
Carl Hiaasen, [columnist, Miami Herald] Trap Line, 1982 [long form version unavailable]
Jack Higgins, British-born bestselling writer of thrillers [references to Elizabeth Taylor's new perfume line], The Eagle Has Landed, Night of the Fox, 1987
Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Found in the Street, 1987
Oscar Hijuelos, [first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction] Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, 1990
Carol Hill, Eleven Million Mile High Dancer, 1985
Tony Hillerman, Edgar Award, famed for his Navajo Tribal Police crime novels, A Thief of Time, 1988
S. E. Hinson, noted for her popular young adult novels, The Outsiders, 1987
Alfred Hitchcock, with Donald Spoto, author of Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Russell Hoban, [John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Science Fiction] Riddley Walker, The Medusa Frequency, 1987
Alice Hoffman, At Risk, 1988, [long form version unavailable]
Mary Hood, And Venus is Blue, 1987
Christopher Hope, [South African novelist and poet] A Separate Development, 1982
A. E. Hotchner, [biographer and friend of Ernest Hemingway], Choice People, 1984
John Houseman, [actor, director, memorist, associated with Orson Welles, Prof. Kingsfield in the film The Paper Chase] Final Dress, 1983
Robert Houston, [director of MFA Program at the University of Arizona] The Nation Thief, 1984
Maureen Howard, [National Book Critics Circle Award] Grace Abounding, 1982
Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits, 1986
Langston Hughes, with biographer Arnold Rampersad, Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I, 1986 [long form version unavailable]
Langston Hughes, with biographer Arnold Rampersad, Life of Langston Hughes, Volume II, 1989
The Howard Hughes Hoax, with Clifford Irving Angel of Zen, [Irving served 17 months in prison for accepting $750,000 from McGraw-Hill for what turned out to be a phony co-written autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes.] 1984
Robert Hughes, [Australian-born art critic, writer, and documentary producer, a New York Public Library Literary Lion]The Fatal Shore, 1987
Josephine Humphreys, [Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award], Rich in Love, The Fireman's Fair, 1991 [long form version unavailable]
Evan Hunter [Ed McBain], [Grand Master, Mystery Writers of America] The Blackboard Jungle, Lizzie, 1984
Evan Hunter [Ed McBain], [creator, the 87th Precinct crime series] Mary, Mary, [wrote screenplay for Hitchcock film The Birds] 1993
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John Irving, World According to Garp, [Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]. Cider House Rules, 1985
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989
Clifford Irving, [the Howard Hughes hoax] Angel of Zen, [Irving served 17 months in prison for accepting $750,000 from McGraw-Hill for what turned out to be a phony co-written autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes.] 1984
Clifford Irving, Daddy's Girl, 1988
Clifford Irving, Trial, 1990
Susan Isaacs, Shining Through, Magic Hour, 1991
Kazuo Ishiguro, [Nobel Prize, Booker Prize] The Remains of the Day, 1990
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Shirley Jackson, with biographer Judy Oppenheimer, Private Demons, 1988
P. D. James, [Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award] A Taste for Death, 1986
P. D. James, Devices and Desires, 1990
P. D. James, Children of Men [cites Stephen Vincent Benet poem "Nighmare for Future Reference"], 1993
Tama Janowitz, [so-called literary Brat Pack member] Cannibal in Manhattan, 1987
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, [Booker Prize winning novelist, screenwriter associated with the Merchant/Ivory films, In Search of Love and Beauty, 1993
Leroy Jones, [Amiri Baraka], poet, activist, 1984
James Jones, [National Book Award] From Here to Eternity, WW II, 1975
Kaylee Jones, As Soon As It Rains, [daughter of James Jones] 1986 [long form version unavailable]
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Parachutes & Kisses, 1985
Erica Jong, Any Woman's Blues, 1990
Erica Jong, Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller, 1993
Ward Just, [master of the political novel] Jack Gance, 1989
Ward Just, The Translator, 1991
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Stuart Kaminsky, [Edgar Award] A Cold Red Sunrise.1989
Franz Kafka, with biographer Frederick Karl, Franz Kafka: Representative Man, 1991
Justin Kaplan [two National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize], biographer of Mark Twain, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman, editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1993
Elia Kazan, [Academy Award winning director of On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden], author of America America, The Arrangement, 1985
Frances Kazan, [wife of Elia Kazan] Good Night, Little Sister, 1986
Alfred Kazin, [Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism] On Native Grounds, A Walker in the City, An American Procession, 1984
Terry Kay, Appalachian Heritage Writers Award, Dark Thirty, [rare telephone interview] 1984
Garrison Keillor, [creator of the PRI broadcast A Prairie Home Companion]. Happy to be Here, 1983
Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, 1985
Jonathan Kellerman, When the Bough Breaks, 1985
Thomas Keneally, [Booker Prize] To Asmara, 1989
Thomas Keneally, Flying Hero Class, 1991
Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea, 1993
William Kennedy, [Pulitzer Prize]Ironweed, The Ink Truck, 1984
William Kennedy, [with son Brendan] Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine, 1986
William Kennedy, Quinn's Book, 1988
Ken Kesey, with novelist Robert Stone who describes his days as one of Kesey's Merry Pranksters, 1992
Tracy Kidder, [Pulitzer Prize] Soul of a New Machine, House, 1985
Penn Kimball, distinguished Columbia University journalism professor who found he'd been named a national security risk for 30 years and never knew it, The File, 1984 [long form version unavailable]
Jamaica Kincaid, [Antigua-born, novelist, essayist, New Yorker staff writer], Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, 1991
Stephen King, with Peter Straub, who describes how he and King worked together to co-author The Talisman , 1984
Thomas King, [American-Canadian writer focusing on North America's indigenous peoples] Green Grass, Running Water, 1993
Barbara Kingsolver, PEN/Faulkner Award, Animal Dreams, 1990
Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey, 1989
Herb Klein, [Nixon White House Communications Director] Making It Perfectly Clear, 1980 [CBS-FM Crosstalk broadcast]
K. G. X. Konkel, [Toronto police sergeant] Glorious East Wind, 1989
Michael Korda, [Simon & Schuster editor-in-chief] Queenie, 1985
Jerzy Kosinski, [National Book Award] The Hermit of 69th Street, 1988
William Kotzwinkle, [World Fantasy Award, screenwriter, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial], The Book of Love, [interview references the Persian Gulf War]1991
Jonathan Kozol, [National Book Award] Illiterate America, 1985
Krazy Kat, The Comic Art of George Herriman [with editor Patrick McDonald] 1986
Jill Krementz, [photojournalist, wife of Kurt Vonnegut], How It Feels to Fight for Your Life, 1989
Charles Kuralt, [CBS News Correspondent] On the Road with Charles Kuralt, 1985
Harvey Kurtzman, [creator of Mad magazine] My Life as a Cartoonist, 1990
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John Lahr, [New Yorker critic, son of legendary comedian Bert Lahr] Automatic Vaudville, 1984
Ring Lardner, Jr., [blacklisted screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten, Lardner was imprisoned for defying the House Un-American Activites Committee] All for Love, 1985
James Laughlin, [publisher of New Directions books, poet] Selected Poems, 1986
David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, 1989
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, No Marble Angels, 1986
Jim Lehrer [PBS news anchor] Kick the Can, 1988
Franklin Allen Leib, Fire Arrow, 1988
Brad Leithauser, [poet, novelist] Equal Distance, 1985
Elmore Leonard, [Edgar, National Book awards] Glitz, Dutch Treat, 1985
Elmore Leonard, Touch, 1987
Doris Lessing, [Nobel Prize]The Fifth Chilld, 1988
Doris Lessing, African Laughter, The Real Thing, 1992
Gordon Lish, [celebrated Esquire, Knopf editor whose bare-bones editing of the early Raymond Carver ignited a contretemps] Dear Mr. Capote, 1983
Gordon Lish, Peru, 1986
Gordon Lish, Mourner at the Door, 1988
Literacy, Jonathan Kozol, [National Book Award] Illiterate America, 1985
Literacy, Eli Zal, executive director, Literary Volunteers, New York City, New Writers Voices, 1989
Penelope Lively, [Booker Prize] Moon Tiger, 1988
Barry Lopez, [American Book Award] Arctic Dreams, Field Notes, 1989
Robert Lowell, with biographer Ian Hamilton, author of Robert Lowell: A Biography, 1982
Robert Lowell, with Jonathan Raban, editor of an important UK edition of Robert Lowell's poetry. [Also lengthy chitchat about publishing & Raban's books Old Glory, Foreign Land] 1985
Arthur Lubow, biographer of pioneering journalist Richard Harding Davis, The Reporter Who Would Be King, 1992
Robert Ludlum, [creator of the Jason Bourne stories) The Aquitaine Progression, 1984
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986
Alison Lurie, [Pulitzer Prize] [catty gossip about Erica Jong] Foreign Affairs, 1984
Alison Lurie, Don't Tell the Grown-ups: Subversive Children's Literature, 1990
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Peter Maas, [Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book], Serpico, The Valachi Papers, Father and Son, 1989 [long form version unavailable]
Robert MacNeil, [PBS news anchor] Wordstruck, 1989
Robert MacNeil, [PBS news anchor] Burden of Desire, 1992
Mad magazine, with creator Harvey Kurtzman, My Life as a Cartoonist, 1990
Jeb Stuart Magruder, [Nixon Watergate figure] An American Life: One Man's Road to Watergate, 1975 [CBS-FM Crosstalk]
Gigi Mahon, The Last Days of the New Yorker, [Behind the scenes account of a magazine in flux] 1989
Valerie Martin, Mary Reilly, [Mary Reilly, filmed with John Malkovich, retells Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from a servant's point of view.] 1990
Norman Mailer, [Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award] The Naked and the Dead, Harlot's Ghost, 1991
Norman Mailer, with biographer Hillary Mills, 1983
Bernard Malamud, with Robert Giroux, publisher, Farrar Straus Giroux, on Malamud's death, 1986
Thomas Mallon, [literary plagiarism] Stolen Words, 1989
William Manchester, Death of a President, Goodbye Darkness, 1980
Richard Marek, [publisher, editor-in-chief of Dutton] Works of Genius, 1988
Georgi Markov, dissident Bulgarian writer assassinated in London by a poisoned pellet. English translation of The Truth That Killed, [with widow Annabel Markov] 1984
Fabienne Marsh, Long Distances, 1988
Paule Marshall, Daughters, 1991
Bobby Ann Mason, [PEN/Hemingway Award] In Country, 1985
Bobbie Ann Mason, Love Life, 1989
Jack Matthews, Hanger Stout Awake, Collecting Rare Books for Pleasure and Profit, 1984
Jack Matthews, Ohio Uiversity scholar, debating Don Swaim on the myth and mind of Ambrose Bierce, author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," The Devil's Dictionary, 2010
Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, Significant Others, 1987
Joyce Maynard, To Die For, [touches on her relationship with J.D. Salinger] 1992
Ed McBain [Evan Hunter], [Grand Master, Mystery Writers of America] The Blackboard Jungle, Lizzie, 1984
Ed McBain [Evan Hunter], [creator of the 87th Precinct crime series] Mary, Mary, [wrote screenplay for Hitchcock film The Birds] 1993
Anne McCaffrey, [popular science-fiction writer, creator of the Pern books] The Lady, 1988
Donald McCaig, Nop's Trials, 1984
Jill McCorkle, Ferris Beach, 1990
Robert McCrumm, editorial director of British publisher Faber and Faber, The Story of English, book companion to the PBS broadcast of the same name, [development of the English mother tongue] 1990 [long form version unavailable]
Alice McDermott, A Bigamist's Daughter, That Night, 1988
Gregory McDonald, [Fletch mystery series] Flynn's In, 1984
Gregory McDonald, A World Too Wide, 1987
Edmund McDowell, New York Times publishing reporter, The Lost World, 1989 [long form version unavailable]
Rider McDowell, The Mercy Man, 1987
Ian McEwan, [Booker Prize] The Innocent, 1990
Ian McEwan, Black Dogs, 1992
Patrick McDonnell,, editor of Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, 1986
Cyra McFadden, Rain or Shine, 1986
Dennis McFarland, The Music Room, 1991
Thomas McGuane, To Skin a Cat, 1986
Patrick McGrath, [horror writer] Spider, 1991
Jay McInerney, [so-called literary Brat Pack member] Story of My Life, 1988 [long form version unavailable]
Rod McKuen, [poet and musician] Intervals, 1986
Thomas McMahon, Loving Little Egypt, 1987
Ved Mehta, [Blind New Yorker writer] Sound-Shadows of the New World, 1986
Terry Melton, [Director, Western States Arts Federation] Western States Book Awards, 1988
H. L. Mencken, with Charles Fecher, editor of The Diary of H. L. Mencken, 1989
H. L. Mencken, The American Mercury, facsimile edition of the most influential magazine of the 1920s], with editor Richard Russell, 1984
H. L. Mencken,with Karl Shapiro, Pulitizer Prize-winning poet, talks, in part, about his connection with Mencken, The Younger Son, 1988
James A. Michener, [Pulitzer Prize] Tales of the South Pacific, Six Days in Havana, Caribbean, 1989
Diane Wood Middlebrook, author of a biography of Ann Sexton, Ann Sexton, 1991
Henry Miller, with Erica Jong, author of Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller, 1993
JP Miller, [reference to Clifford Irving of the Howard Hughes literary hoax] Days of Wine and Roses, The Skook,, 1985
Sue Miller, Family Pictures, 1990
Susan Minot, Folly, 1992
Greg Mitchell, The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics, 1992
Herbert Mitgang, [distinguished New York Times journalist] Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors, 1988
Paul Monette, Afterlife, 1990
Paul Monette, Halfway Home, 1991
Ted Mooney, Easy Travel to Other Planets, Traffic and Laughter, 1990
Brian Moore, [Belfast born novelist, screenwriter] Black Robe, Lies of Silence, 1990
Inge Morath, [photographer, wife of playwright Arthur Miller] Portraits, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
Janet Morgan, biographer of Agatha Christie. 1985 [long form version unavailable]
Mary Morris, The Bus of Dreams, 1985
Mary Morris, Nothing to Declare, 1988
Toni Morrison, [Nobel Prize] Beloved, 1987
Bradford Morrow, editor of Conjunctions, The Amanac Branch, 1991
John Mortimer, [creator of the Rumpole of the Bailey TV series] Dunster, 1987
Brian Morton, Americans in Paris, the American expatriate experience in France, 1984
Brian Morton, Americans in London, the American expatriate experience in England,1986
Barry Moser, [illustrator, founder of the Pennyroyal Press
] 100th anniversary edition of Huckleberry Flynn, 1985
Barry Moser, [illustrator, founder of the Pennyroyal Press
] new edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1990
Robert Moses, [powerful New York official known as "The Master Builder"] Public Works: A Dangerous Pofession, 1973 [NOTE: this sometimes profane interview with the touchy Moses touches upon long-ago New York politics that may be unfamiliar today]
Robert Moses, with Pulitzer Prize Robert Caro, author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, 1974 [audio currently unavailable]
Leonard Mosley, biographer of Walt Disney, Disney's World, 1985
Robert Moss, [reference to former co-writer Arnaud de Borchgrave] Moscow Rules, 1985
Robert Moss, Carnival of Spies, 1987
William Murray, [New Yorker staff writer, known for a series of mystery novels set in the horse racing world] Tip on a Dead Crab, 1984
William Murray, Hard Knocker's Luck, 1985
Edward R. Murrow, [pioneering CBS newsman] with biographer A.M. Sperber, Edward R. Murrow, His Life and Times, 1986
Mystery Books, with Jane Chelius, editor, Pocket Books, 1992
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Vladimir Nabokov, with Brian Boyd, Nabokov biographer, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, 1991
Dimitri Nabokov, Vladimir's son, translator of The Enchanter, a novella written by Vladimir in 1939, 1986
Nancy Drew Books, with Nancy Axelrod, editor, the classic Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys books, 1987
National Writers Union with Jonathan Tasini, president, [trade union for freelance and contract writers, including journalists, book and short story authors, business and technical writers, and poets] 1992
David Nevin, historical novelist, Dream West, [epic tale of John Charles Fremont's role in the opening of the American West, made into a seven-hour CBS miniseries based on book] 1984 [long form version unavailable]
The New Yorker -- parody, Snooze by co-authors John Buskina, Alfred Gingold, 1986
The New Yorker, with Gigi Mahon, author The Last Days of the New Yorker, [Behind the scenes account of a magazine in flux] 1989
The New Yorker, with Calvin Trillin, humorist and New Yorker writer on life at the magazine, 1983 and 1987
The New Yorker, with Alec Wilkinson New Yorker staff writer on life as a writer at the magazine, 1984
Fae Myenne Ng, [American Book Award] Bone, 1993
Victor Navasky, [publisher, The Nation] The Experts Speak [misinformation by people who were supposed to know — co-written with Christopher Cerf], 1984
John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War, American Blood, 1987
John Nichols, An Elegy for September, 1992
Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life, 1985
Hugh Nissenson, The Elephant and My Jewish Problem [stories], 1988
Penelope Niven, Carl Sandburg: A Biography, 1991
Cornelia Nixon, Now You See It, 1991
Richard M. Nixon, 37th president of the U.S. [about his writing, library, and literary influences] Memoirs, Real Peace, 1984
William Noble, Bookbanning in America: Who Bans Books? And Why? 1990
Gloria Norris, [chief editor, Book of the Month Club] Looking for Bobby, 1985
Craig Nova, [O. Henry Award] The Geek, Trombone, 1992
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Joyce Carol Oates, [O. Henry Award, National Book Award, PEN/Malamud Award] Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, 1990
Rick Obadiah, publisher, Classics Illustrated, [idle chitchat about radio vs TV] comic books, 1990
Edna O'Brien,[PEN/Nabokov Award] Country Girls Trilogy, Time and Tide, 1992
Tim O'Brien, [National Book Award] Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, 1990
Alix Ohlin, Babylon and Other Stories, The Missing Person, 2009
Suzanne O'Malley, & Dan Greenburg, How to Avoid Love and Marriage, 1983
Judy Oppenheimer, author of Private Demons, biography of Shirley Jackson, 1988
Amos Oz, [Israeli novelist] In the Land of Israel, 1983
Amos Oz, [Israeli novelist] A Perfect Peace, 1985
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William Packard, poet, editor, New York Quartely, author of Saturday Night at San Marcos, 1985
Gail Parent, novelist, Emmy Award-winning television and screenwriter, Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York, A Little Bit Married, 1984 [long form version unavailable]
Gail Parent, Emmy Award-winning TV writer for Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett, Signs of the Eighties, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
Jay Parini, The Last Station, [a novel of Leo Tolstoy] 1990
The Paris Review, with co-founder and editor George Plimpton on the occasion of the Review's 100th issue, 1986
Robert B. Parker, Edgar Award, the Spenser series character, Valediction, 1984
Robert B. Parker, Taming a Sea-Horse, 1986
T. Jefferson Parker, Little Saigon, 1988
Sara Paretsky, creator of the V.I. Warshawski detective series, Guardian Angel, 1992
James Patterson, Edgar Award, Black Market, 1986
David Payne, Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, 1984
Ridley Pearson, [novelist, musician] Blood of the Albatross, [sings live in studio two songs of his own composition.] Pearson joined an all-author band, Rockbottom Remainders, composed of Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Mitch Album, Scott Turow, Greg Iles, and Stephen King] 1986
Leonard Pekoff, literary heir to Ayn Rand, author of The Ominous Parallels, introduction to Ayn Rand's Philosophy, Who Needs It?, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Leonard Pekoff, literary heir to Ayn Rand, editor of The Early Ayn Rand, 1985 [long form version unavailable]
Vivian Perlis, biographer of Aaron Copland, Copland 1900 Through 1932 & Copland Since 1943, 1990
Jane Ann Phillips, [the Danner referred to in the interview is a character in her book] Machine Dreams, 1985
Photography, Alfred Appel Jr. [reading photographs] Signs of Life, 1987
Photography, Eve Arnold [celebrated photographer] Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
Photography, Margaret Bourke-White, [famed photo-journalist] with biographer Vickie Goldberg, 1986 [long form version unavailable]
Photography, David Douglas Duncan [celebrated photojournalist] collaborates with amateur photographer George Forss on New York/New York, 1984
Photography, Vicki Goldberg, The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives, 1992
Photography, Jill Krementz, photojournalist, wife of Kurt Vonnegut, How It Feels to Fight for Your Life, 1989
Photography, Inge Morath, photographer, wife of playwright Arthur Miller, Portraits, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
Photography, Mark Riboud, famed French photographer, Photographs At Home And Abroad, 1988
Photography, Rick Smolan, A Day in the Life of America, 1986
Photography, Lou Stoumen, [photographer] Times Square 1985
Marge Piercy, [poet, novelist] Braided Lives, Flyaway Home, 1984
Plagiarism, [literary] with Thomas Mallon, Stolen Words, 1989
George Plimpton, founder/editor, The Paris Review, [on the occasion of the Review's 100th issue] 1986
Edgar Allan Poe, with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman, Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Neverending Remembrance, 1991 [long form version unavailable]
Edgar Allan Poe, montage of Poe poetry read by Dave Atherton of CBS, who performed this reading specifically for the Kenneth Silverman report on Poe [above], 1991
Beatrix Potter, creator of the Peter Rabbit Tales for children, with Judy Taylor author of That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit, 1987
Poets & Writers magazine, with editor Elliot Figman
Viido Polikarpus, Down Town, co-writer & illustrator with Tappan King of this urban fantasy, [note: born in a refugee camp in Europe and educated in America, Polikarpus rerturned to his native Estonia in 1995] 1985
Katha Pollitt, [poet, literary editor The Nation, National Book Critics Circle, American Book awards] Antarctic Traveler, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Chaim Potok, The Chosen, Davita's Harp, 1985
Jody Powell, White House Press Secretary, Carter Administration, The Other Side of the Story, 1984
Ron Powers, White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal, 1986
Emily Prager, Eve's Tattoo, 1991
Reynolds Price, Good Hearts, 1988
Reynolds Price, The Tongues of Angels, 1990
Reynolds Price, [on his paralysis due to a spine tumor] Blue Calhoun, 1992
Nicholas Proffitt, [Newsweek war correspondent in Viet Nam] Gardens of Stone, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Publishers, Jason Epstein, [publisher, editorial director of Random House] The Reader's Catalog, 1989
Publishers, Michael Korda, [Simon & Schuster editor-in-chief] Queenie, 1985
Publishers, James Laughlin, poet [publisher of New Directions] Selected Poems, 1986
Publishers, Robert Giroux, publisher of Farrar Straus Giroux, [on death of Bernard Malamud] 1986
Publishers, Richard Marek, [publisher, editor-in-chief of Dutton] Works of Genius, 1988
Publishers, Barney Rossett, Grove Press. Courageously fought censorship in America by publishing D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and William Burrough's Naked Lunch -- and beat the censors.
Publishers, Andre Schiffrin, editor-in-chief of Pantheon Books, founder of The New Press, 1992
Publishers, Charles Scribner Jr., [publisher of Ernest Hemingway ppm occasion of new Hemingway stamp,1989
Publishers, Charles Scribner Jr., In the Company of Writers: A Life in Publishing, a memoir, 1991
Publishers, Sol Stein, publisher and writer, Stein & Day, The Touch of Treason, 1985
Publishers, Sol Stein, publisher and writer, Stein & Day,A Feast for Lawyers, [on the collapse of his publishing house] , 1989
Publishers, Sol Stein, publisher and writer, Stein & Day, The Best Revenge, 1991
Publishers Weekly, [bible of the publishing industry] with John Baker, editor-in-chief, 1991
James Purdy, On Glory's Course, 1984
James Purdy, The Candles of Your Eyes, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
James Purdy, The Garments the Living Wear, 1989
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Jonathan Raban, National Book Critics Circle Award, editor of UK edition of Robert Lowell, Old Glory, Foreign Land, [lengthy chitchat about publishing] 1985
Dotson Rader, Tennessee: Cry of the Heart Intimate Memoir of Tennessee Williams, 1985
Ronald Radosh, The Rosenberg File, co-written with Joyce Milton. [highly controversial book in which new information shows that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed as Soviet atomic spies, were indeed guilty of espionage, although much of the evidence used against them was false] 1983 [long form version unavailable]
J.J.R. Ramey, [broadcast journalist] West of Paradise Run, 1990
Arnold Rampersad, biographer of Langston Hughes, Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I, 1986 [long form version unavailable]
Arnold Rampersad, biographer of Langston Hughes, Life of Langston Hughes, Volume II, 1988
Ayn Rand, with Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand acolyte],Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand, 1989
Ayn Rand, with Barbara Branden, Ayn Rand acolyte, husband of Nathaniel, The Passion of Ayn Rand, 1986
Ayn Rand with Leonard Pekoff [literary heir to Rand] author of The Ominous Parallels, introduction to Ayn Rand's Philosophy, Who Needs It?, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Ayn Rand with Leonard Pekoff [literary heir to Rand] editor of The Early Ayn Rand, 1985 [long form version unavailable]
Barbara Raskin, Hot Flashes, 1987
Henry Reath, publisher, First Editions Library, facsimile editions of classic books, 1991
Ishmael Reed, [discussion of the 1986 Pen Interntional Congress] Reckless Eyeballing, [wrote lyrics to music for three jazz albums, Conjure] 1986
Ishmael Reed, Writin' is Fightin' [essays] 1988
Bob Reiss, The Casco Deception, 1984
Bob Reiss, Divine Assassin, 1985
Ruth Rendell, stellar British mystery writer [the Inspector Wexford mysteries] Going Wrong 1990
Mark Riboud, famed French photographer, Photographs At Home And Abroad, 1988
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Laestat, 1985
Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned, 1988
Adrienne Rich, National Book Award-winning poet [candid talk about lesbianism] Blood, Bread, and Poetry,1987
Mordecai Richler, [great Canadian novelist] The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Best of Modern Humor, 1983
Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky was Here, 1990
Alberto Alvarado Rios, [Arizona Poet Laureate, Walt Whitman Award, Western States Book Award for Fiction] The Iguana Killer, 1990 [long form version unavailable]
Mister Rogers, [Fred Rogers, celebrated children's TV host], Making Friends, 1987
Barney Rosset, Grove Press. Courageously fought censorship in America by publishing D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and William Burrough's Naked Lunch -- and beat the censors.
Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, August, 1983
Norman Rosten, Brooklyn Poet Laureate [reference to Howard Golden, Brooklyn Borough President] Neighborhood Tales, 1986
Bernice Rubens, [Booker Prize] Brothers, 1985
Theodore Isaac Rubin, [prominent psychiatrist] Lisa and David, Lisa and David Today, 1986
Damon Runyon, with Jimmy Breslin, biographer, Damon Runyon, A Life, 1991
Salman Rushdie, with his wife, American novelist Marianne Wiggins, who describes how their marriage collapsed when they were forced to go into hiding in Britain after Iranian religious leaderAyatollah Khomeini ordered Rushdie killed for blasphemy for writing The Satanic Verses, 1990
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Oliver Sacks, famed neurologist, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for Hat, Seeing Voices, 1989
William Safire, New York Times "On Language" columnist [Pulitzer Prize] author of Civil War novel Freedom, 1987
H.F. Saint, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1987
Harrison Salisbury, [Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent] Tianamen Diary: Thirteen Days in June, 1989
J. D. Salinger, with Ian Hamilton, In Search of J.D. Salinger, 1988
J. D. Salinger, with Joyce Maynard, To Die For, [touches only passingly on her youthful (age 18) live-in relationship with J.D. Salinger] 1992
Thomas Sanchez, Rabbit Boss, Mile Zero, 1989
Carl Sandburg, with Penelope Niven, author of Carl Sandburg: A Biography, 1991
Jean Paul Sartre, with Annie Cohen-Solal, Sartre biographer, A Life, 1987 [long form version unavailable]
John Sayles, novelist, filmmaker, [reference to annual meeting American Booksellers Assocition in New York City] Los Gusanos, 1991
Andre Schiffrin, editor-in-chief of Pantheon Books, founder of The New Press, 1992
Richard Schickel, film historian, Time film critic, Schickel on Film, 1989
David Schoenbrun, [veteran CBS News broadcaster - one of "Murrow's Boys"] America Inside Out, 1987
Budd Schulberg, 50th anniversary of What Makes Sammy Run? [explosive 1941 Hollywood novel], Waterfront, The Disenchanted, The Harder They Fall, [friendly witness before House Un-American Activities Committee] 1990 [Budd Schulberg suffered from a speech impediment, which required some editing of this intervew]
Jane Schwartz, debut novel, Caught, [early book published by the Available Press] 1985
Charles Scribner, Scribner's [publisher of Ernest Hemingway] on occasion of new Hemingway stamp, 1989
Charles Scribner, Scribner's, In the Company of Writers: A Life in Publishing, a memoir, 1991
John Sculley, President, Apple Computer, Odyssey, [Sculley led the coup that fired visionary Steve Jobs from Apple] 1987
Mary Lee Settle, [National Book Award] Blood Tie, The Scapegoat, 1981
Ann Sexton poet, with biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook,1991
Ann Sexton with Linda Grey Sexton, [daughter of poet Ann Sexton] Points of Light, 1988
Linda Grey Sexton, [daughter of poet Ann Sexton] Points of Light, 1988
Bob Shacochis, The Next New World, 1989
Steve Shagan, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, A Cast of Thousands, 1993
Karl Shapiro, Pulitizer Prize, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, The Younger Son, 1988
Wilfrid Sheed, essayist and novelist, Essays in Disguise, The Boys of Winter, 1990
Sidney Sheldon, Oscar-winning screenwriter, prolific best-selling author dubbed "Mr. Blockbuster" [reference to Mary Sheldon, Sheldon's daughter, who had just pubished a novel. Objects when questioned about an issue of plausibility during interview] Windmill of the Gods, 1987
Mimi Sheraton, New York Times food critic [dining out is not aways glamorous] The New York Times Restaurant Guide 1983
Norman Sherry, author of a definitive, three-volume biography of Graham Greene, Life of Graham Greene Vol. I 1904-1939, 1989
William L. Shirer, famed wartime CBS journalist [one of "Murrow's Boys"], National Book Award, Berlin Diary, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Nighmare Years, 1984
Louise Shivers, [published her acclaimed debut novel when she was 53] Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail, 1983
Seymour Shubin, Edgar Award-winning mystery writer, Voices 1985
Jennifer Shute, South African-born novelist, Life-Size, 1992
Linda Sillitoe, staff writer for the Deseret News, author of Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, [notorious murdery-forgery case involving Mark Hoffman, forger of documents related to Mormon history, who killed two people in bomb blasts to cover up his deeds] 1988
Kenneth Silverman, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Neverending Remembrance, 1991 [long form version unavailable]
Upton Sinclair, with Greg Mitchell, author of The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics, 1992
Roger Simon, [screenwriter, creator of the Moses Wine detective novels] The Big Fix, The Straight Man, 1986
Paul Simms, Cliff Notes - Parody from Spy magazine, Simms satirizes so called "Brat Pack" novels by Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jill Eisenstadt, etc., 1989
Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, [Simpson was unaware until she was an adult that she was the younger sister of Apple's Steve Jobs, who had been given up for adoption by their parents] 1992
Josef Skvorecky, Czech-Canadian writer and publisher, The Engineer of Human Souls, 1984
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love & Good Will, 1989
Dennis Smith, Bronx firefighter turned author, founder of Firehouse magazine, Report from Engine Company 82, Steeley Blue, 1984 [long form version unavailable]
Lee Smith, Southern author, O. Henry Award, Family Linen, 1985
Lee Smith, Me and My Baby View the Eclipse, 1990
Martin Cruz Smith, [creator of the novels of Russian homicide cop Arkady Renko] Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, 1986
Martin Cruz Smith, Polar Star, 1989
Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square, 1992
Rick Smolan, [photographer] A Day in the Life of America,1986
Gary Snyder, environmental activist associated with the Beat poets, [Pulitzer, American Book Award] The Practice of the Wild, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, 1991
Susan Sontag, [National Book Award, National Book Critics Award] The Volcano Lover, 1992
Irini Spanidou, Greek-born author, God's Snake [praised first novel] 1986
Scott Spencer, Endless Love, Waking the Dead, 1986
A,M. Sperber, author of Edward R. Murrow, His Life and Times, 1986 [long form version unavailable]
Art Spiegelman [Pulitzer prize-winning graphic artist, co-founder of the magazine Raw], Maus, acclaimed biographical graphic novel depicting Germans as cats, Jews as mice, and Poles as pigs, 1991
Donald Spoto, author of Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Michael Spring, [Travel Guides] Fodor Travel Guides editorial director, 1989
Francesca Stanfill, Shadows and Light, [Stanfill reveals that Doubleday halted distribution of Shadows and Light, fearing a lawsuit from Stanfill's ex-husband, prompting Stanfill to buy her rights back and taking the book to Simon & Schuster, a major publishing controvery at the time] 1984.
Sharon Sheehe Stark, [O. Henry Award] The Dealer's Yard, A Wrestling Season, 1987
Sol Stein, publisher and writer, Stein & Day, The Touch of Treason, 1985
Sol Stein, publisher and writer [on the collapse of his publishing house, Stein & Day] A Feast for Lawyers, 1989
Sol Stein, publisher and writer, Stein & Day, The Best Revenge, 1991
John Steinbeck, with widow Elaine Steinbeck on the 50th anniversaty of The Grapes of Wrath, 1989
John Steinbeck, with Robert DeMott, editor of Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath, 1989
Gloria Steinem, feminist icon, [refers to her 1963 undercover role as a Playboy Bunny and the sensation that followed her article in Show Magazine] Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
Irving Stone, Lust for Life [Vincent van Gogh], The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo) Depths of Glory [Camille Pissarro], 1985
Robert Stone, [National Book Award] Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, Children of Light, [much publishing shoptalk in this conversation] 1986
Robert Stone, [describes his days as one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters] Outerbridge Reach, 1992
Lou Stoumen, [photographer] Times Square 1985
Peter Straub, Ghost Story, Floating Dragon, [discusses writing on an early word processor] 1983
Peter Straub, The Talisman [written with Stephen King], Wild Animals, 1984
Peter Straub, Houses Without Doors, Mystery, 1990
Whitley Strieber, The Wolfen, War Day [written with James W. Kunetka] 1984
Whitley Strieber, Wolf of Shadows, 1985
Whitley Strieber, [describes his asserted kidnaping by little green outer-space aliens and taken to their spaceship] Communion, 1987
William Styron, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice, 1981
William Styron, [Styron reacts to film version of Sophie's Choice and reads from the book] This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982
Han Suyin, A Many-Splendored Thing, The Enchantress, [Song "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" won the 1955 Oscar for Best Original Song from the novel's film version] 1985 Graham Swift, [Booker Prize] Waterland, Learning to Swim, 1985
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Gay Talese, [literary journalist] Unto the Sons, a memoir, 1992
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club [acclaimed first novel], 1989
Jonathan Tasini, president of the National Writers Union [trade union for freelance and contract writers, including journalists, book and short story authors, business and technical writers, and poets] 1992
Judy Taylor, author of That Naughty Rabbit: Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit, 1987
Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit [young girl scores as a chess prodigy], 1983
Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler, The Steps of the Sun,, [describes how his release from alcoholism led to a writing career] 1984
Paul Theroux, [travel writer and novelist] The Kingdom by the Sea, [devastating appraisal of the seedy English coastline] 1983
Paul Theroux, Half Moon Street, 1984
Paul Theroux, Sunrise with Seamonsters [personal essays], 1985
Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster, 1988
Paul Theroux, My Secret History [autobiographical novel on how a writer is shaped], 1989
Paul Theroux, Chicago Loop, 1991
Phyllis Theroux, [essayist, columnist, playwright] Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark, 1987
D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel [novel of Babi Yar], Memories and Hallucinations [memoir], 1988 [long form version unavailable]
John Toland, [Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian] Gods of War, 1985
Sam Toperoff, Queen of Desire [a novel of Marilyn Monroe] 1992
Leo Tolstoy, with Jay Parini, author of The Last Station, [a novel of Tolstoy] 1990
Calvin Trillin, [humorist and New Yorker writer] Floater, Third Helpings, 1983
Calvin Trillin, Killings [true crime stories written for The New Yorker], 1984
Calvin Trillin, With All Disrepect, [columns first appearing in The Nation] 1985
Calvin Trillin, If You Can't Say Something Nice, 1987
Calvin Trillin, Travels with Alice, 1989
Studs Terkel, [Pulitzer Prize] The Great Divide, 1988
Scott Turow, [master of legal thrillers] Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, 1990
Thomas Tryon, [film star turned best-selling novelist] All That Glitters, The Other, 1986
Thomas Tryon, The Wings of the Morning, 1990
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John Updike, [National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle, Pulitzer Prize, PEN/Malamud Award, PEN/Faulkner Award] The Widows of Eastwich, 1984
Barry Unsworth, [Booker Prize] The Rage of the Vulture, [novel set in Turkey in the last years of the Ottoman Empire] 1983
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Guy Vanderhaeghe, [Canadian author] Man Descending, My Present Age, [the Canadian tradition in writing] 1985
Andrew Vachss, [crime writer, known for his Burke and Cross series of novels] Blue Belle, 1988
Gore Vidal, Live From Golgotha, Screening History, [Vidal weighs in on movies, religion, and Truman Capote] 1992
Peter Viertel, author, screenwriter [The African Queen], husband of actress Deborah Carr], White Hunter Black Heart, Dangerous Friends: At Large with Huston and Hemingway in the Fifties, 1992
Judith Viorst, [known for her light verse and books for children] Forever Fifty, 1989
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five, Palm Sunday, [Vonegut on censorship, religion, booze, and the word "fuck"] 1981
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Dan Wakefield, [novelist, journalist, screenwriter] New York in the Fifties, 1992
Joseph Wambaugh, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Glitter Dome,1981
Joseph Wambaugh, The Blooding, [true crime story of how early DNA analysis led to a serial killer in a small English village] 1989
Robert Ward, [Hill Street Blues scriptwriter] Red Baker, The King of Cards [novels of Baltimore] 1993
Paul Watkins, Night Over Day Over Night, Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England, The Promise of Light, 1993
Western States Book Awards, [with Terry Melton, Director, Western States Arts Federation], 1988
John Weitz, [prominent menswear designer, race car driver] Friends in High Places, 1983
Fay Weldon, fiesty British novelist, essayist, playwright, The Hearts and Lives of Men, [Weldon, a Booker Prize judge, was caught up in controversy when she voted for Salman Rushie only at the last moment to change her vote to J.M. Coetzee.]1988
H. G. Wells, with Anthony West, son of H.G. Wells, "father of science fiction," H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life, 1984 [long form version unavilable]
Morris West, Australian novelist and playwright, The Devil's Advocate, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The World is Made of Glass, 1983
Morris West, Lazarus, [written after his recovery from open heart surgery] 1990
Paul West, British-born novelist married to the poet Diane Ackerman, The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper, 1991
Edmund White, [PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction] A Boy's Own Story, 1983 [NOTE: my blunt comments and questions of Edmund White regarding gays reflected the era when this interview occurred.]
Edmund White, Caracole, 1985
Edmund White, [writer for Vogue, Vanity Fair], This Beautiful Room is Empty, sequel to A Boy's Own Story, [describes first-hand the Stonewall riots], 1988
Edmund White, [reveals why he came out as HIV positive] editor, The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction, [Lambda Literary Award finalist] 1991
Les Whitten, A Killing Place, [Whitten was a controversial investigative reporter working for Jack Anderson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column when he quit to write fiction fulltime] 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Tom Wicker, New York Times reporter and columnist [Wicker's nonfiction avvount of the 1971 Attica prison riot, A Time to Die, won an Edgar for Best Fact Crime book] Unto This Hour, Civil War novel, 1984
John Edgar Wideman, [PEN/Faulkner, American Book awards] Philadelphia Fire, Fever, 1990 [long form version unavailable]
Elie Wiesel, [Nobel Peace Prize] Night, The Six Days of Destruction, [as an Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor, bearing witness to the Holocaust] 1988
Marianne Wiggins, [American novelist married to Salmon Rushdie] John Dollar, 1990
Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, novelist, with biographer Gilbert Harrison, author of The Enthusiast, 1983 [long form version unavailable]
Richard Wiley, [PEN-Faulkner award for best first novel] Soldiers in Hiding, 1987
Alec Wilkinson, [New Yorker writer] Midnight: A Year with the Wellfleet Police, Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor, 1984
Nancy Willard, [poet, novelist, illustrator of children's books, Newbery Medal] Things Invisible to See, 1985
Kit Williams, English author and illustrator, Masquerade [a book containing the clues to the whereabouts of a buried golden hare], Book Without a Name. [NOTE: Scandalously, the location of the buried golden hare in Masquerade was determined by two Manchester, England, physics teachers, but it had already been found by someone who had been given the location by Williams's former girlfriend.], 1984 [Long form unavailable]
Tennessee Williams, with Dodson Rader, author of Tennessee: Cry of the Heart Intimate Memoir of Tennessee Williams, 1985
Harriet E. Wilson, with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Our Nig [First published novel by a black in U.S. 1857] 1983 [NOTE: WCBS Reporter Jane Tillman Irving sat in on this interview]
Sloan Wilson, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Summer Place, A Sense of Values, 1984. [The title song from the film version of A Summer Place was Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for nine consecutive weeks, a record for the time.]
Larry Woiwode, [William Faulkner Foundation Award, North Dakota Poet Laureate] Born Brothers, What I'm Going to Do I Think, 1988
Tobias Wolff, [PEN/Faulkner Award, National Medal of Arts] Back in the World, 1985
Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life, [A young Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed the Tobias Wolff character in the film version.] 1989 [NOTE: Wolff's brother, Geoffrey Wolff, himself a writer, won an Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.]
Stuart Woods Under the Lake, 8/14/87
Stephen Wright, Meditations in Green, 1983
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Jonathan Yardley, [Pulitzer Prize, Washington Post book critic], Our Kind of People: The Story of An American Family, 1989
Henny Youngman, comedian, Take My Jokes, Please, [celebrated for his "Take my wife...please!" jokes] 1983
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Eli Zal, executive director, Literary Volunteers, New York City, New Writers Voices, 1989
Sidney Zion, journalist, lawyer, author, Markers, The Autobiography of Roy Cohn, [The death of Zion's daughter Libby, 18, at New York Hospital led to a trial resulting in improvements in working conditions for hospital residents.] 1990
chronological list of each CBS Radio Book Beat feature broadcast by date
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