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  • Russell Sherman discusses and reads from his book “Piano Pieces”

    May. 17, 1996
  • Gloria Wade-Gayles discusses her book “Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman’s Journey Home”

    Dec. 3, 1993
  • Discussing the books "Shallows" and "That Eye, the Sky" with author Tim Winton

    May. 3, 1988
  • Interview with Robert Brustein

    Nov. 2, 1994
  • Fred Gardaphe and Nat Scammacca discuss reverse migration

    Apr. 3, 1989
  • Discussing the book "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother" with the author, journalist and composer James McBride

    Jan. 26, 1996
  • Discussing Chicago mobster Murray "the Camel" Humphreys and other noted figures of Welsh ancestry with John Morgan

    May. 16, 1983
  • Discussing the book "Ernie's America: The Best of Ernie Pyle's 1930's Travel Dispatches" with David Nichols

    Sep. 14, 1989
  • Interviewing Kevin Phillips

    Aug. 1, 1990
  • Discussing the book "--Where Love Begins," a biography of poet Carl Sandburg, with the author, Sandburg's daughter, Helga Sandburg

    Sep. 19, 1990
  • Discussing the Rites and Reason Theatre group at Brown University with producer/managing director Karen Baxter and author and poet Sherley Anne Williams.

    Jun. 10, 1997
  • John Anthony Ciardi in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Aug. 25, 1980
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