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famous author interviews



Hello all,

Here at the Ohio University Telecommunications Center, we continue to add 
Don Swaim's famous author interviews in RealAudio to our web site, Wired 
for Books <http://wiredforbooks.org> .

Don Swaim recorded these interviews for CBS Radio during the 1970s, 1980s, 
and early 1990s. The exact date for each interview is found in the title of 
the RealPlayer when the interview is played. All of the interviews are on 
tape at the Ohio University Archives and Special Collections, Donald L. 
Swaim Collection (Manuscript Collection #177) in Athens, Ohio.

The interviews are informal in style and I think you will enjoy listening. 
They vary in length from about twenty minutes to over forty minutes. Most 
of the interviews have never been broadcast in their entirety, since Don 
Swaim had to edit each interview down to a two-minute (!) radio feature.

We're adding two or three new interviews per week and the following is a 
list of authors and dates of the interviews that are on the web now.


Alice Adams (1984)
Isaac Asimov (1987)
Margaret Atwood (1986)
Jean Auel (1985)
Ann Beattie (1985)
Andre Brink (1985)
William Burroughs (1984)
Raymond Carver (1983)
Mary Higgins Clark (1984)
Larry Collins (1985)
Robert Creeley (1984)
James Dickey (1981)
Richard Eberhart (1980)
Allen Ginsberg (1984)
Patricia Hampl (1983)
Joseph Heller (1984)
James Jones (1975)
William Kennedy (1984)
Louis L'Amour (1984)
Ring Lardner, Jr. (1985)
Elmore Leonard (1985)
Gordon Lish (1986)
William Manchester (1980)
Bobby Ann Mason (1985)
Toni Morrison (1987)
Richard Nixon (1984)
Robert B. Parker (1984)
Anne Rice (1985)
Gloria Steinem (1985)
Irving Stone (1985)
William Styron (1981)
William Styron, 2nd interview (1982)
Amy Tan (1989)
Walter Tevis (1983)
Walter Tevis, 2nd interview (1984)
John Updike (1984)
Kurt Vonnegut (1981)
Anthony West (1984)