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1989

Two-minute or less radio features about books and writers heard on WCBS-AM and later syndicated by the CBS Radio Stations News Service. They're simple mp3 files. Click to listen or "save as" to load onto your device. FORMAT NOTE: Beginning with cut 59 (Richard Curtis) the sign-off has two versions: one for WCBS, the second for syndication.

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  • 01 Mike Feder - "New York" Son 1-2-89.
  • 02 Edward Abbey - "The Fool's Progress" 1-4-89
  • 03 Edwin McDowell - "The Lost World" 1-9-89
  • 04 J.P. Donleavy - "Are You Listening Rabbi Low" 1-23-89
  • 05 Rita Mae Brown - "Bingo" 1-11-89.mp3
  • 06 Langston Hughes, biography Vol. 2 (with biographer Arnold Rampersad) 1-23-89
  • 07 Karl Shapiro, Pulitzer winning poet - "The Younger Son" 1-30-89
  • 08 Thomas Fleming - "Time and Tide" 2-2-89
  • 09 Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner - "Six Days of Destruction" 2-6-89
  • 10 Stan Freberg - "It Only Hurts When I Laugh" 2-13-89
  • 11 Hugh Nissenson - "The Elephant and My Jewish Problem" 2-16-89
  • 12 Gigi Mahon - "Last Days of the New Yorker" 2-20-89
  • 13 Herbert Mitgang - "Dangerous Dossiers" 2-22-89
  • 14 Ethan Canin - "Emperor of the Air" 2-14-89
  • 15 Ward Just - Jack "Gance" 2-27-89.mp3
  • 16 Bob Shacochis - "The Next New World" 3-2-89.mp3
  • 17 Tobias Wolff - "This Boy's Life" 3-6-89
  • 18 Fay Weldon - "Hearts and Lives of Men" 3-9-89.mp3
  • 19 Robertson Davies - "The Lyre of Orpheus" 3-13-89
  • 20 Linda Gray Sexton - "Points of Light" 3-16-89
  • 21 Susan Brownmiller - "Waverly Place" 3-20-89
  • 22 David Leavitt - "Equal Affections" 3-23-89
  • 23 Fodor Travel Guides (with editor Michael Springer) 4-3-89
  • 24 Joseph Wambaugh - "The Blooding" 3-27-89.mp3
  • 25 Publishers Weekly annual study of the 1988 book industry - 3-30-89
  • 26 Edmund White - The Beautiful Room is Empty 4-5-89
  • 27 Dick Francis - "The Edge" 4-7-89
  • 28 Edward Abbey, obituary 4-10-89
  • 29 Neil Bissondath - "A Casual Brutality" 4-12-89
  • 30 Edward Stewart - "Privileged Lives" 4-14-89
  • 31 Roy Blount - "Now Where Were We" 4-18-89
  • 32 Mary Morris - "Nothing to Declare" 4-20-89
  • 33 Peter Maas - "Father and Son" 4-24-89
  • 34 Frank Rose - "West of Eden," The End of Innocence at Apple Computer 4-26-89
  • 35 Fabienne Marsh - "Long Distances" 4-28-89
  • 36 Bobbie Ann Mason - "Love Life" 5-4-89
  • 37 Robert MacNeil, PBS News Hour - "Wordstruck" 5-1-89
  • 38 Douglas Adams - "Long Tea-Time of the Soul" 5-8-89
  • 39 Truman Capote (with biographer Gerald Clarke) 5-10-89
  • 40 Amy Tan - "The Joy Luck Club" 5-15-89
  • 41 Carl Bernstein - "Loyalties" 5-17-89
  • 42 50th Anniversary of John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" (with Steinbeck widow Elaine, scholar Robert Demott) WCBS 1989
  • 43 Five-part series on John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" (with widow Elaine, scholar Robert Demott) 6-19-89
  • 44 Ralph Graves - "Share of Honor" 5-22-89
  • 45 K.G.E. Konkel, Toronto Police Dept - "The Glorious East Wind" 5-25-89
  • 46 Barbara Goldsmith - book preservation 5-29-89
  • 47 John Irving - "A Prayer for Owen Meany" 6-5-89
  • 48 Vintage International, new line of paperback books (with editor Erroll McDonald) 6-9-89
  • 49 Katherine Dunn - "Geek Love" 6-12-89
  • 50 William Kennedy - "Quinn's Book" 6-15-89.mp3
  • 51 Maxine Hong Kingston - "Tripmaster Monkey" 6-26-89
  • 52 Simon Brett, U.K. mystery writer - "Mrs. Presumed Dead" 7-6-89
  • 53 Eli Zal, director, Literacy Volunteers - on adult literacy 6-29-89
  • 54 Jonathan Yardley - "Our Kind of People" 7-3-89
  • 55 Carolyn Chute - "Letourneau's Used Auto Parts" 7-7-89
  • 56 Ian Frazier - "Great Plains" 7-10-89
  • 57 Reynolds Price - "Clear Pictures" 7-13-89
  • 58 Paul Theroux - "Riding the Iron Rooster" 6-1-89
  • 59 Richard Curtis, literary agent - "Beyond the Best Seller" 7-17-89.mp3
  • 60 Stuart Kaminsky, Edgar Award winner - "A Cold Red Sunrise" 7-20-89
  • 61 Mary Higgins Clark - "While My Pretty One Sleeps" 7-24-89
  • 62 Doris Lessing - "The Fifth Child" 7-26-89
  • 63 Paul Theroux - "My Secret History" 7-31-89
  • 64 Michael Crighton - "Travels" 8-3-89
  • 65 Richard Schickel, "Time Magazine" film critic - "Schickel on Film" 8-7-89
  • 66 Jay McInerney - "Story of My Life" 8-10-89
  • 67 Nathaniel Branden - Ayn Rand - "Judgment Day" 8-14-89
  • 68 Alice Hoffman - "At Risk" 8-17-89
  • 69 Tony Hillerman - "Talking God" 8-21-89.mp3
  • 70 Graham Greene (with biographer Norman Sherry) 8-23-89
  • 71 Barry Lopez - "Crossing Open Ground" 8-28-89
  • 72 Larry Woiwode - "Born Brothers" 8-31-89
  • 73 Martin Cruz Smith - "Polar Star" 9-4-89
  • 74 Judy Oppenheimer - "Private Demons," The Life of Shirley Jackson 9-7-89
  • 75 Michael Dorris - "The Broken Chord" 9-11-89
  • 76 Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book (with senior writer Linda Henry) 9-14-89
  • 77 Irving Stone, obituary (WCBS) 1989
  • 78 Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damned 9-18-89
  • 79 Ian Hamilton - "In Search of J.D. Salinger" 9-21-89
  • 80 Allan Gurganus - "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" 9-25-89
  • 81 Harold Brodkey - "Stories in an Almost Classical Mode" 9-28-89
  • 82 Harrison Salisbury, New York Times reporter - "Tianamen Diary" 10-2-89
  • 83 Franklin Allen Leib - Fire Arrow 10-5-89
  • 84 Irwin Shaw (with biographer Michael Shnayerson 10-9-89
  • 85 Judith Viorst, popular poet - "Forever Fifty" 10-12-89
  • 86 The Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmans (with widow Madeline Bemelmans) 10-16-89
  • 87 Publishers Weekly annual publishing industry salary survey for 1988 10-20-89
  • 88 R.R. Bowker Co. study of book output and prices 10-20-89
  • 89 Art Garfunkel (of Simon and Garfunkel) - "Still Water," poems 10-23-89
  • 90 Russell Banks - "Affliction" 10-26-89.mp3
  • 91 Charles Scribner Jr. - on the venerable publishing house and a new Hemingway stamp 10-30-89
  • 92 Hugh Nissenson - The Elephant and My Jewish Problem 11-2-89.mp3
  • 93 Larry Brown - "Dirty Work" 11-6-89
  • 94 Margaret Drabble, U.K. writer - "A Natural Curiosity" 11-8-89
  • 95 James A. Michener - "Caribbean", "Six Days in Havana" 11-13-89
  • 96 Jason Epstein, Random House editorial director - "The Reader's Catalog" 11-20-89
  • 97 Meg Wolitzer - "This is Your Life" 11-23-89
  • 98 Paul Simms - "Spy Notes" (parody of Cliff Notes) 11-27-89
  • 99 Clifford Stoll, astronomer tracks computer criminals - "The Cukoo's Egg" 11-29-89
  • 100 William Wharton - "Franky Furbo" 12-4-89
  • 101 Susan Brownmiller - "Waverly Place" 12-7-89
  • 102 Thomas Mallon - "Stolen Words" 12-11-89
  • 103 Thomas Keneally - "To Asmara" 12-25-89
  • 104 Langston Hughes, biography, Vols 1 and 2 ressued in paperback (with biographer Arnold Rampersad) 12-18-89

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