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1992

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: the sign-off has two versions: one for WCBS, the second for syndication

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  • 01 Brian Moore - "Lies of Silence" 1-2-92
  • 02 Jimmy Breslin - "Damon Runyon" 1-6-92
  • 03 Geoffrey Wolff - "The Final Club" 1-9-92
  • 04 Patrick McGrath - "Spider", Gothic fiction 1-13-92
  • 05 Aaron Elkins - "Icy Clutches" 1-16-92
  • 06 John Edgar Wideman - "Philadelphia Fire" 1-20-92
  • 07 The Childrens Book of the Month Club (with editorial director David Allender) 1-23-92
  • 08 Art Spigelman - "Maus" (New York Times notable book for 1991) 1-27-92
  • 09 Paule Marshall - "Daughters" 2-3-92
  • 10 Dan Greenburg - "Exes" 2-6-92
  • 11 Stanley Elkin - "The MacGuffin" 2-10-92
  • 12 Peter Ackroyd, biographer - "Dickens" 2-13-92
  • 13 "Don Quixote," new illustrated edition (with translator Magda Bogin) 2-17-92
  • 14 Rick Bass - "Winter" 2-20-92
  • 15 Emily Prager - "Eve's Tattoo" 2-14-92
  • 16 John Barth - "Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor" 2-16-92
  • 17 Franz Kafka (with biographer Frederick Karl, "Representative Man") 3-2-92
  • 18 Donald Hall - "Here at Eagle Pond" 3-5-92
  • 19 Joyce Maynard - "To Die For" 3-9-92
  • 20 Thomas Keneally - "Flying Hero Class" 3-13-92.mp3
  • 21 The New Press, new non-profit publishing house (with publisher Andrei Schiffrin) 3-16-92
  • 22 Sam Toperoff - "Queen of Desire" 3-19-92
  • 23 Richard Bausch - "Violence" 3-23-92
  • 24 Sandra Cisneros - "Woman Hollering Creek" 3-26-92
  • 25 Edgar Allan Poe (with biographer Kenneth Silverman, "Edgar A. Poe Mournful and Neverending Remembrance") 3-30-92
  • 26 Gail Godwin - "Father Melancholy's Daughter" 4-2-92
  • 27 Vickie Goldberg - "The Power of Photography" 4-6-92.mp3
  • 28 Mona Simpson - "The Lost Father" 4-13-92
  • 29 David Gates - "Jernigan" 4-16-92
  • 30 Ann Charters - "The Portable Beat Reader" 4-20-92
  • 31 Michael Crighton - "Red Sun" 4-27-92
  • 32 Susan Isaacs - Magic Hour 4-30-92
  • 33 Sara Paretsky - "Guardian Angel" 5-4-92
  • 34 Josephine Humphreys - "The Fireman's Fair" 5-7-92
  • 35 Gay Talese - "Unto the Sons" 5-11-92
  • 36 Susan Cheever - "Treetops" 5-14-92
  • 37 Isaac Asimov, obituary (WCBS) 1992
  • 38 Robert Stone - "Outerbridge Reach" 5-18-92
  • 39 Robert MacNeil - "Burden of Desire" 5-25-92.mp3
  • 40 Mary Gaitskill - "Two Girls, Fat and Thin" 5-28-92
  • 41 Edward DeGrazia, First Amendment lawyer - "irls Lean Back Everywhere" 6-1-92
  • 42 Jenefer Shute "Life-Size" 6-8-92
  • 43 Michael Cunningham - "At Home at the End of the World" 6-11-92
  • 44 Carlos Fuentes - "The Hidden Mirror" 6-15-92
  • 45 Mark Helprin - "A Soldier of the Great War" 6-22-92
  • 46 Cornelia Nixon - "Now You See It" 6-25-92
  • 47 Dan Wakefield - "New York in the 50s" 6-29-92
  • 48 Paul Monette - "Halfway Home" 7-2-92.mp3
  • 49 Reynolds Price - "Blue Calhoun" 7-6-92
  • 50 John Sayles - "Los Gusanos" 7-8-92
  • 51 Marianne Wiggins - "John Dollar" 7-16-92
  • 52 Edna O'Brien - "Time and Tide" 7-13-92
  • 53 Ray Bradbury - "Green Shadows, White Whale" 7-20-92
  • 54 Benjamin Cheever - "The Plagiarist" 7-27-92
  • 55 Jeffrey Archer - "As the Crow Flies" 7-30-92
  • 56 Upton Sinclair (with biographer Greg Mitchell, "The Campaign of the Century" 8-2-92
  • 57 Ted Mooney - "Traffic and Laughter" 8-5-92
  • 58 Craig Nova - "Trombone" 8-10-92
  • 59 Paul West - "The Women of White Chapel and Jack the Ripper" 8-13-92
  • 60 John Nichols - "An Elegy for September" 8-17-92
  • 61 Mary Cantwell - "American Girl" 8-24-92
  • 62 Stanley Elkin - "The Macguffin" 8-27-92
  • 63 Richard Harding Davis (with biographer Arthur Lebow, "The Reporter Who Would Be King") 9-7-92
  • 64 Douglas Coupland - "Shampoo Planet" 9-13-92
  • 65 Peter Viertel - "Dangerous Friends" 9-28-92
  • 66 Susan Sontag - "The Volcano Lover" 10-5-92
  • 67 William J. Caunitz - "Exceptional Clearance" 10-8-92
  • 68 Julian Barnes - "Talking It Over" 10-15-92
  • 69 Norman Mailer - "Harlot's Ghost" 10-19-92
  • 70 The National Writers Union (with president Jonathan Tasini) 10-26-92
  • 71 Edmund White, editor, "The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction" 10-28-92
  • 72 Rosellen Brown - "Before and After" 11-2-92
  • 73 Paule Marshall - "Daughters," republished in trade paperback 11-5-92
  • 74 James Ellroy - "White Jazz" 11-9-92
  • 75 Bradford Morrow - "The Almanac Branch," "Conjunctions" 11-12-92.mp3
  • 76 Gore Vidal - "Screening History," "Live From Golgotha" 11-16-92
  • 77 Patrick McGrath - "The New Gothic" 11-19-92
  • 78 Emily Prager - "Eve's Tattoo," republished as trade paperback 11-20-92
  • 79 Michael Dorris - "Morning Girl" 11-23-92
  • 80 William Least Heat-Moon - "PrairyErth" 11-26-92
  • 81 Mystery Writers Book Tour (with Jane Chelius, editor, Pocket Books) 12-3-92
  • 82 Doris Lessing - "African Laughter," "The Real Thing" 12-7-92
  • 83 Anne Sexton, poet (with biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook) 12-10-92
  • 84 The Modern Library, 75th anniversary (with chairman Christopher Cerf) 12-14-92
  • 85 Nick Bantock - "Sabine's Notebook" 12-21-92
  • 86 Susan Minot - "Folly" 12-24-92
  • 87 Harold Brodkey - "The Runaway Soul" 12-28-92

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