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1986

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.

1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993

  • 01 John Gardner (British, "The Secret Generations") 1-2-86
  • 02 James Jones (with biographer Frank McShane, "Into Eternity") 1-6-86
  • 03 Gloria Steinem - "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" 1-9-86
  • 04 Jean Auel - "The Mammoth Hunters" 1-13-86
  • 05 Infocom (David Lebling, designer of computer games for writers) 1-16-86
  • 06 Leonard Mosley (Walt Disney biography, "Disney's World") 1-20-86
  • 07 Jane Schwartz - "Caught," Available Press 1-23-86
  • 08 William Packard poet-novelist - "Saturday Night at San Marcos" 1-27-86
  • 09 Thomas Wolfe (with Duane Schneider, president of the Thomas Wolfe Society) 1-29-86
  • 10 Lester Goran, Florida novelist - "Mrs. Beautiful" 1-31-86
  • 11 Robert Coover - "Gerald's Party" 2-3-86
  • 12 James Dickey, poet, on shuttle disaster (WCBS) 1-26-86
  • 13 Audio Publishing 1986 -10 part series 2-10-86.mp3
  • 14 Mario Vargas Llosa, Gunter Grass clash at PEN International Conference, New York 2-24-86
  • 15 Ray Walters, New York Times paperback columnist - "Paperback Talk" 2-25-86
  • 16 Gail Godwin - "The Finishing School" 2-27-86
  • 17 Censorship (1986 PEN Congress) 3-3-86
  • 18 Clive Cussler - "Cyclops" 3-4-86
  • 19 Gordon Lish - "Peru" 3-6-86
  • 20 E.L. Doctorow vs John Updike at PEN 3-10-86
  • 21 Margaret Atwood - "Handmaid's Tale" 3-11-86
  • 22 Richard Adams - "Maia" 3-13-86
  • 23 A.R. Flowers - "De Mojo Blues" 3-17-86
  • 24 Kensington Ladies Erotica Society - group of San Francisco women write porn under pseudonyms 3-19-86
  • 25 Chaim Potok - "Davita's Harp" 3-20-86
  • 26 Joseph Heller, Speed Vogle - "No Laughing Matter" 3-24-86
  • 27 Geoffrey Wolff - "Providence" 3-27-86
  • 28 Robertson Davies (at PEN) 4-4-86
  • 29 William Gass - "Habitations of the Word" 4-2-86
  • 30 Alec Guinness, actor - "Blessings in Disguise"
  • 31 Czeslaw Milosz- Nobel Prize winning poet (at PEN) 4-7-86
  • 32 Barry Lopez - "Arctic Dreams" 4-8-86
  • 33 Simon Brett, British crime writer - "Dead Giveaway" 4-10-86
  • 34 Kaylie Jones - "As Soon As It Rains" 4-14-86
  • 35 Readers Digest Condensed Books (with editor John Zinsser) 4-16-86
  • 36 Christopher Byron - "The Fanciest Dive" 4-17-86
  • 37 Ved Mehta, blind New Yorker writer - "Sound Shadows of the New World" 4-21-86
  • 38 Bernard Malamud death (with publisher Robert Giroux) 4-25-86
  • 39 Malcolm Bossee - "Fire in Heaven" 4-28-86
  • 40 Christopher Buckley - "The White House Mess" 5-1-86
  • 41 Robert Stone - "Children of Light" 5-5-86
  • 42 Fraggle Rock Book Club (with publisher Charles Wickham) 5-9-86.mp3
  • 43 Jonathan Fast - "Golden Fire" 5-12-86
  • 44 Ismael Reed - "Reckless Eyeballing" - "Conjure" 5-14-86
  • 45 Robert Ludlum - "Bourne Supremacy" 5-19-86
  • 46 Frances Kazan (daughter of Elia Kazan) - "Goodnight Little Sister" 5-21-86
  • 47 Brian Aldiss - "Seasons in Flight" 5-22-86
  • 48 Dan Greenburgh - "Confessions of a Pregnant Father" 5-26-86
  • 49 Cyra McFadden - "Rain or Shine" 5-28-86
  • 50 Dick Francis - "Break-In" 5-30-86
  • 51 Jim Carroll, poet, rock musician - "The Book of Nods" 6-2-86
  • 52 Judy Blume - "Letters to Judy" 6-9-86
  • 53 Tom Jencks (editor, Hemingway's "Garden of Eden") 6-30-86
  • 54 Bret Easton Ellis - "Less Than Zero"
  • 55 Theodore Isaac Rubin - "David and Lisa Today" 6-26-86
  • 56 Martin Cruz Smith - "Stallion Gate"
  • 57 Lawrence Block - "When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes"
  • 58 Scott Spencer - "Waking the Dead" 6-23-86"
  • 59 Nat Hentoff - "Boston Boy"
  • 60 George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" (with editor Patrick McDonald) 7-7-86
  • 61 Maureen Howard - "Expensive Habits" 7-8-86
  • 62 Joanne Leedom-Ackerman - "No Marble Angels" 7-11-86
  • 63 Robert B. Parker - "Taming a Seahorse" 7-21-86
  • 64 A.M. Ann Sperber, biographer - "Edward R. Murrow, His Life and Times" 7-14-86
  • 65 Christopher Cerf - "The Pentagon Catalog" 7-28-86
  • 66 John Irving - "The Cider House Rules" 7-30-86
  • 67 Jack Hemingway (son of Ernest) - "Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman" 7-3-86
  • 68 Vicki Goldberg - biographer of photo-journalist Margaret Bourke-White 8-11-86
  • 69 Carolyn Chute - "The Beans of Egypt Maine" 8-18-86
  • 70 Gay Courter - "Code Ezra" 8-20-86
  • 71 James Patterson - "Black Market" 8-21-86
  • 72 Bob Reiss - "Divine Assassin" 8-22-86
  • 73 Anne Beattie - "Love Always" 8-29-86
  • 74 Barbara Branden, biographer of Ayn Rand - "The Passion of Ayn Rand" 8-4-86
  • 75 James Atlas - "The Great Pretender" 8-25-86
  • 76 Ellen Currie - "Available Ligh"t 8-27-86
  • 77 Herbert Gold - "A Girl of Forty" 9-1-86
  • 78 Norman Rosten - Brooklyn's Poet Laureate - "Neighborhood Tales" 9-4-86
  • 79 Sue Townsend's "Adrian Mole Diaries" (with editor Fred Jordan) 9-29-86
  • 80 Clive Barker, horror writer - "The Inhuman Condition" 10-3-86
  • 81 Anne Rice - "The Vampire Lestat" 10-1-86
  • 82 Charles Kuralt, CBS News correspondent- "On The Road" 10-2-86
  • 83 Tom Clancy - "Red Storm Rising" 10-6-86
  • 84 John Fowles - "A Maggot" 10-8-86
  • 85 Brian Morton - "Americans in London" 10-17-86
  • 86 Paul Theroux - "Ozone" 10-13-86
  • 87 Thomas Chastain, mystery writer - "Murder in Manhattan" 10-16-86
  • 88 Art Spiegelman, graphic artist - "Maus" 10-20-86
  • 89 Robert McCrumm of Faber and Faber - "The Story of English" 10-22-86
  • 90 Ridley Pierson - "Blood of the Albatross" 10-24-86
  • 91 Joseph Heller - 25th anniversary, "Catch 22" 10-27-86
  • 92 Louis Auchincloss - "Diary of a Yuppie" 10-28-86
  • 93 Richard Condon - "Prizzi's Family" 11-3-86
  • 94 Soap Operas & Serials novelized (with publisher Sidney Seltzer) 11-6-86
  • 95 "S.J. Perelman, A Life" (with biographer Dorothy Herrmann) 11-10-86
  • 96 Lewis Grizzard - "My Daddy Was a Pistol" 11-12-86
  • 97 Langston Hughes (with biographer Arnold Ramperstad, Volumne I 1902-1941) 11-17-86
  • 98 Raymond Carver - "Ultramarine" and "Best Short Stories of 1986" 11-14-86
  • 99 Irini Spanidou - "God's Snake" 11-27-86
  • 100 American Book Awards 1986 with Barry Lopez, E.L Doctorow (WCBS) 11-17-86
  • 101 Pat Conroy - "Prince of Tides" 12-1-86
  • 102 Bruce Goldsmith, screenwriter - "Strange Ailments, Uncertain Cures" 12-5-86
  • 103 "Ten Classics in Ten Minutes" (Workman Press) 12-8-86
  • 104 Tess Gallagher, poet - "Lover of Horses" 12-9-86
  • 105 Delia Ephron - "Funny Sauce" 12-10-86
  • 106 Orson Welles (w biographer Barbara Lemming) 12-11-86
  • 107 Jean Auel - "The Mammoth Hunters" 12-12-86
  • 108 Thomas McGuane - "To Skin a Cat" 12-15-86
  • 109 Frances Fitzgerald - "Cities on a Hill" 12-17-86
  • 110 Roger Simon, mystery writer - "The Straight Man" 12-19-86
  • 111 Thomas Tryon - "All That Glitters" 12-22-86
  • 112 Vladimir Nabokov, "The Enchanter" (with son Dimitri Nabokov) 12-25-86
  • 113 Rod McKuen, poet, composer, musician - "Intervals" 12-29-86
  • 114 P.D. James - "A Taste For Death" 12-21-86

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