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1990

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 Oliver Sacks - "Seeing Voices" 1-1-90
  • 02 Tobias Wolff - "This Boy's Life" 1-4-90
  • 03 John Edgar Wideman - Fever 1-9-90
  • 04 Ralph Graves - "Share of Honor" 1-11-90
  • 05 Calvin Trillin - "Travels with Alice" 1-15-90
  • 06 Jane Smiley - "Ordinary Love and Good Will" 1-22-90
  • 07 Andrew Vachss - "Hardy Candy," "Blue Belle" 1-25-90
  • 08 Thomas Sanchez - "Mile Zero" 1-29-90
  • 09 Robertson Davies - "The Lyre of Orpheus" 2-1-90
  • 10 Charles Fecher, editor - "The Diary of H.L. Mencken" 2-5-90
  • 11 James Purdy - "Garments the Living Wear" 2-12-90
  • 12 Jill Krementz, photo-journalist - "How It Feels to Fight For You Life" 2-15-90
  • 13 Sol Stein, publisher - the downfall of his publishing house, Stein and Day, "A Feast For Lawyers" 2-19-90
  • 14 Peter Maas - "Father and Son" 2-22-90
  • 15 Aaron Copland, composer (with Vivian Perlis "Copland Since 1943") 2-26-90
  • 16 "The Book of Kells" (with Swiss publisher Urs Duggelin on a limited-edition facsimile of the Irish treasure) 3-5-90
  • 17 Douglas Adams - The "Long Tea-Time of the Soul" 3-8-90
  • 18 Budd Schulberg - 50th anniversary edition of "What Makes Sammy Run?" 3-12-90
  • 19 Carl Bernstein - "Loyalties" 3-15-90
  • 20 Classics Illustrated, new editions (with publisher Rick Obadiah) 3-19-90
  • 21 Robert MacNeil, PBS News Hour - "Wordstruck" 3-22-90
  • 22 Dan Greenburg - "Exes" 3-26-90
  • 23 Bobbie Ann Mason - "Love Life" 3-29-90
  • 24 Dick Francis - "The Edge," "Straight" 4-2-90
  • 25 J.J.R. Ramey - "West of Paradise Run" 4-3-90
  • 26 Katherine Dunn - "Geek Love" 4-4-90
  • 27 Valerie Martin - "Mary Reilly" 4-9-90
  • 28 Frank Rose - "West of Eden, The End of Innocence at Apple Computer" 4-12-90
  • 29 P.D. James - "Devices and Desires" 4-16-90
  • 30 Lee Smith - "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse" 4-23-90
  • 31 Paul Theroux - "My Secret History" 4-26-90
  • 32 Richard Condon - "The Emperor of America" 4-30-90
  • 33 Bob Shacochis - "The Next New World" 5-3-90
  • 34 Erica Jong - "Any Woman's Blues" 5-7-90
  • 35 Edna Buchanan, Miami Herald crime reporter - "Nobody Lives Forever" 5-14-90
  • 36 Paul Monette - "Afterlife" 5-16-90
  • 37 John Henry Faulk, obituary (blacklisted entertainer and author of "Fear on Trial") 5-21-90
  • 38 Alison Lurie - "Don't Tell the Grownups" 5-23-90
  • 39 Martin Amis - "London Fields" 5-28-90
  • 40 Clifford Irving - "Daddy's Girl" 5-31-90
  • 41 Tim O'Brien - "The Things They Carried" 6-4-90
  • 42 Margaret Atwood - new life for "The Handmaid's Tale" 6-7-90
  • 43 The Book of the Month Club (with editor-in-chief Brigette Weeks) 6-11-90
  • 44 John Irving - "A Prayer for Owen Meany" 6-18-90
  • 45 Arthur Hailey - "The Evening News" 6-14-90
  • 46 Amy Tan - "The Joy Luck Club" 6-21-90
  • 47 Morris West - "Lazarus" 7-2-90
  • 48 Maxine Hong Kingston - "Tripmaster Monkey " 7-5-90
  • 49 Wilfred Sheed - "Essays in Disguise" 7-9-90
  • 50 "Mordechai Richler - Solomon Guersky was Here" 7-11-90
  • 51 Donald Westlake - "Drowned Hopes" 7-16-90
  • 52 John Banville - "The Book of Evidence" 7-19-90
  • 53 Sue Miller - "Family Pictures" 7-23-90
  • 54 Lawrence Ferlinghetti - "Love in the Days of Rage" 7-26-90
  • 55 Joyce Carol Oates - "Because it is Bitter" 7-30-90
  • 56 Reynolds Price - "The Tongues of Angels" 8-6-90
  • 57 Richard Curtis, literary agent - "Beyond the Best Seller" 8-9-90
  • 58 Marianne Wiggins, wife of Salman Rushdie - "John Dollar" 6-25-90
  • 59 Ian Frazier - "Great Plains" 6-28-90
  • 60 Sidney Zion - "Markers" 8-13-90
  • 61 Martin Cruz Smith - "Polar Star" 8-16-90
  • 62 Michael Herr - "Walter Winchell" 8-20-90
  • 63 Ian McEwan - "The Innocent" 9-27-90
  • 64 Ward Just - "Jack Gance" 8-23-90
  • 65 Neil Bissondath - "A Casual Brutality" 9-3-90
  • 66 Scott Turow - "The Burden of Proof" 9-3-90
  • 67 Margaret Drabble - "A Natural Curiosity" 9-6-90
  • 68 Roy Blount - First Hubby 9-10-90
  • 69 John Casey - "Spartina" 9-13-90
  • 70 Barry Moser, publisher, illustrator - limited edition of Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" 9-17-90
  • 71 Oliver Sacks - "Seeing Voices" 9-20-90
  • 72 Oscar Hijuelos - "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" 9-24-90
  • 73 Russell Banks - "Affliction" 9-27-90
  • 74 Jay Parini, novelist, poet - "The Last Station", "Town Life" 10-1-90
  • 75 Thomas Keneally - "To Asmara" 10-8-90
  • 76 D.M. Thomas - "Memories and Halluncinations", "Lying Together" 10-12-90.mp3
  • 77 Thomas Sanchez - "Mile Zero" 10-18-90
  • 78 Aaron Elkins - "Icy Clutches" 10-15-90
  • 79 Kazuo Ishiguro - "Remains of the Day 10-22-90
  • 80 Allan Gurganus - "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" 10-25-90
  • 81 Barbara Kingsolver - "Animal Dreams" 10-29-90
  • 82 Lois Gordon - "American Chronicle" 11-1-90
  • 83 Brian Moore - "Lies of Silence" 11-5-90
  • 84 Larry Brown - "Dirty Work," "Big Bad Love" 11-8-90
  • 85 Clifford Stoll - "The Cukoo's Egg" 11-15-90
  • 86 Thomas Tryon - "The Wings of Morning" 11-12-90
  • 87 William Noble - "Bookbanning in America" 11-19-90
  • 88 Graham Greene (with biographer Norman Sherry) 8-23-89
  • 89 T. Coraghessan Boyle - "East is East" 11-26-90
  • 90 Jill McCorkle - "Ferris Beach" 11-29-90
  • 91 Michael Dorris - "The Broken Chord" 12-6-90
  • 92 Mark Childress - "Tender" 12-3-90
  • 93 Geoffrey Wolff - "The Final Club" 12-10-90
  • 94 Poets and Writers, 20th anniversary (with director Elliott Figman) 12-13-90
  • 95 Harry Crews - "Body" 12-17-90
  • 96 Tess Gallagher - (Raymond Carver) "Carver Country" 12-14-90
  • 97 Howard Fast - "Being Red" 12-31-90

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