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Authors/Writers

  • Discussing the book The Trouble with Nowadays: A Curmudgeon Strikes Back

    Nov. 14, 1979
  • Interview with Michael Frayn ; part 1

    1968
  • Joan Chase discusses her book "During the Reign of the Queen of Persia: a Novel"

    Feb. 1, 1984
  • Will D. Campbell discusses his book "Providence"

    Aug. 26, 1992
  • Dalton Trumbo reads from and discusses his book "Additional Dialogue ; part 1

    Nov. 27, 1970
  • John Anthony Ciardi talks with Studs Terkel

    Mar. 22, 1960
  • Tom Wolfe

    Tom Wolfe discusses an essay on Las Vegas

    Aug. 11, 1965
  • Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the defunding of the Illinois Writers' Project, a New Deal program for out-of-work authors, with Project editor and author Jerre Mangione, writer and actor Dave Peltz, and author Sam Ross

    Sep. 22, 1989
  • Interview with Jean Bach

    Oct. 10, 1994
  • Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott

    Mar. 8, 1984
  • Carolyn Forche in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 12, 1994
  • Discussing the Remains Theatre Ensemble's production of the play, "Speed-the-Plow," with playwright David Mamet, director Joel Schumacher, and actors Bill Petersen, and D. W. Moffett

    Feb. 20, 1989
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