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  • Discussing the his biography "Life Work," and the book of poetry "The Museum of Clear Ideas" with poet Donald Hall

    Nov. 12, 1993
  • Eugene Ionesco

    Interviewing Eugene Ionesco while Studs was in France ; part 1

    Nov. 8, 1962
  • Christopher Lasch in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Sep. 20, 1984
  • Discussing the book "Lewis Mumford, a Life" with Donald L. Miller

    Aug. 7, 1989
  • Discussing the book "An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991" with Adrienne Rich

    Sep. 23, 1992
  • Discussing the book "Observing the Nixon Years: 'Notes and Comment' from the New Yorker on the Vietnam War and the Watergate Crisis, 1969-1975" with Jonathan Schell

    May. 18, 1989
  • Discussing the book "Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography" with the author James Park Sloan

    Apr. 2, 1996
  • Calvin (Bud) Trillin

    Discussing the book "Deadline Poet, or, My Life as a Doggerelist" with the author, humorist and poet Calvin Trillin

    Apr. 19, 1994
  • Discussing Chicago architecture with Carl Condit and Maurice English ; part 1

    1964
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jun. 1, 1990
  • John Frohnmayer in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Apr. 30, 1993
  • Allan Gurganus

    Allan Gurganus in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Feb. 7, 1991
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