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1991

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 NOTE: For eight weeks from 1-14-91 to 3-8-91, Book Book was preempted by Persian Gulf war coverage


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  • 01 Ted Mooney - Traffic and Laughter 1-3-91.mp3
  • 02 Ruth Rendell - "Going Wrong" 1-7-91
  • 03 Clifford Irving - "Trial" 1-10-91
  • 04 H.L. Mencken - "The Diary of H.L. Mencken" (with editor Charles Fecher) 3-11-91
  • 05 Donald Hall, poet - "Here at Eagle Pond" 3-18-91
  • 06 Jane Smiley - "Ordinary Love and Good Will" 3-21-91
  • 07 Peter Straub - "Mystery," "Houses Without Doors" 3-25-91
  • 08 Valerie Martin - "Mary Reilly" 3-28-91
  • 09 Christopher Cerf - "The Book of Sequels" 4-1-91.mp3
  • 10 The First Edition Library, facsimilies of famous books (with publisher Henry Reath) 4-4-91
  • 11 Michael Cunningham - "A Home at the End of the World" 4-8-91
  • 12 Nathaniel Branden - Ayn Rand - "Judgment Day" 4-11-91
  • 13 Jamaica Kincaid - "Lucy" 4-29-91
  • 14 Peter Ackroyd - Dickens, biography 4-15-91
  • 15 Erica Jong - "Any Woman's Blues" 4-18-91
  • 16 Ann Beattie - Vintage republishes all of Beatty's early work 4-22-91
  • 17 P.D. James - "Devices and Desires" 4-24-91
  • 18 James A. Michener - "Caribbean," "Noel" 5-2-91
  • 19 William Kotzwinkle - "The Book of Love" 5-6-91
  • 20 John Steinbeck - "Working Days" (edited by Robert Demott) 5-9-91
  • 21 Tom Dardis - "The Thirsty Muse" (alcoholic writers) 5-13-91
  • 22 Susan Isaacs - "Magic Hour" 5-16-91
  • 23 John Barth - "The Story of Somebody the Sailor" 5-20-91
  • 24 Charles Scribner Jr., publisher - In the Company of Writers 5-23-91.mp3
  • 25 Gail Godwin - "Father Melancholy's Daughter" 5-27-91
  • 26 Aaron Copland, composer (with Vivian Perlis Copland Since 1943) 5-29-91
  • 27 Gary Snyder - "The Portrait of the Wild" 6-3-91
  • 28 Tim O'Brien - "The Things They Carried" 6-6-91
  • 29 Mary Gaitskill - "Two Girls, Fat and Thin" 6-10-91.mp3
  • 30 Joyce Carol Oates - "Because it is Bitter" 6-12-91
  • 31 Paul Theroux - "Chicago Loop" 6-17-91.mp3
  • 32 Ishmael Reed - Writin' is Fightin' 6-20-91
  • 33 Susan Cheever - "Treetops" 6-24-91
  • 34 Thomas Mallon - "Stolen Words," "Aurora Seven" 6-27-91
  • 35 Rick Bass - "Winter" 7-1-91
  • 36 Martin Amis - "London Fields" 7-3-91.mp3
  • 37 Jerzy Kosinski, obituary (WCBS) 1991.mp3
  • 38 Alice Adams - "Caroline's Daughters" 7-8-91
  • 39 Reynolds Price - "The Tongues of Angels" 7-10-91
  • 41 Sue Miller -" Family Pictures" 7-18-91
  • 42 James Purdy - "The Candles of Your Eyes" 7-25-91
  • 43 Malcolm Bosse - "Mister Touch" 7-22-91
  • 44 Paul Monette - "Halfway Home" 7-29-91
  • 45 Cornelia Nixon - "Now You See It" 8-1-91
  • 46 Dennis McFarland - "The Music Room" 8-5-91
  • 47 Alison Lurie - "Don't Tell the Grownups" 8-7-91
  • 48 Scott Turow -" The Burden of Proof" 8-15-91
  • 49 Jeffrey Archer - "As the Crow Flies" 8-19-91
  • 50 Mordechai Richler - "Solomon Gursky Was Here" 8-22-91
  • 51 Mark Helprin - "A Soldier of the Great War" 8-26-91
  • 52 Josephine Humphreys - "The Fireman's Fair" 9-2-91
  • 53 Sidney Zion - "Markers" 9-4-91
  • 54 "Publishers Weekly" (with editor-in-chief John Baker) 9-9-91
  • 55 Clifford Irving - "Trial" 9-12-91
  • 56 John Sayles - "Los Gusanos" 9-16-91
  • 57 Barbara Kingsolver - "Animal Dreams" 9-19-91
  • 58 Paul West - "The Women of White Chapel and Jack the Ripper" 9-23-91
  • 59 Bradford Morrow - "The Almanac Branch," "Conjunctions" 9-26-91
  • 60 David Gates - "Jernigan" 9-30-91
  • 61 Sandra Cisneros - "Woman Hollering Creek" 10-7-91
  • 62 Michael Herr - "Walter Winchell" 10-3-91
  • 63 T. Corraghesson Boyle - "East is East" 10-10-91
  • 64 Edward Bliss, distinguished CBS newswriter - "Now the News" 10-14-91
  • 65 William J. Caunitz - "Exceptional Clearance" 10-21-91
  • 66 Mark Childress - "Tender" 10-24-91
  • 67 Anne Sexton, poet (with biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook) 10-28-91
  • 68 Jamaica Kincaid - "Lucy" published in paperback 10-31-91
  • 69 Sol Stein - "The Best Revenge, "Write Pro" (for computers) 11-4-91
  • 70 Jay Parini - "The Last Station" 11-6-91
  • 71 Carl Sandburg (with biographer Penelope Niven) 11-11-91
  • 72 Russell Banks - "The Sweet Hereafter" 11-18-91
  • 73 Ward Just - "The Translator" 11-21-91.mp3
  • 74 Frederick Busch - "Closing Arguments" 11-25-91
  • 75 Ian McEwan - "The Innocent" 11-28-91
  • 76 Norman Mailer - "Harlot's Ghost" 12-2-91
  • 77 Vladimir Nabokov (with biographer Brian Boyd, "Nabokov, the American Years") 12-9-91
  • 78 Peter Straub - "Houses Without Doors" 12-13-91
  • 79 Edmund White, editor - "The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction" 12-16-91
  • 80 Jill McCorkle - "Ferris Beach" 12-19-91
  • 81 William Least Heat-Moon - "PrairyErth" 12-23-91
  • 82 Howard Fast - "Being Red" 12-26-91
  • 83 Julian Barnes - "Talking it Over" 12-30-91


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