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Discussing the book "Enthusiasms" (published by Crown Books) with author and journalist Bernard Levin.
1984
*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 
Discussing the book "Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes," with the authors, investigative reporters Donald Barlett and James Steele
May. 18, 1979
Discussing the book "Edgar Snow's China" with the author Lois Wheeler Snow
Jul. 6, 1981
Discussing the book "Edgar Snow's China" with the author Lois Wheeler Snow.
Discussing the book "Dr. Rocksinger and the age of longing" with the author Jill Robinson
May. 17, 1978
Discussing the book "Dr. Rocksinger and the age of longing" with the author Jill Robinson.
Discussing the book "Don't touch that dial" with the author J. Fred McDonald
Oct. 2, 1979
Discussing the book "Don't Shoot, We are your Children!" with the author Anthony Lukas
Apr. 15, 1971
Discussing the book "Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague" with Richard Rhodes
Mar. 26, 1997
Discussing the book "Deadline Poet, or, My Life as a Doggerelist" with the author, humorist and poet Calvin Trillin
Apr. 19, 1994
Discussing the book "Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors" with Herbert Mitgang
Mar. 10, 1989
Discussing the book "Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America" with the art critic, author, and documentary filmmaker Robert Hughes
May. 5, 1993
Discussing the book "Crow and Weasel" with Barry Lopez
Oct. 17, 1990
Discussing the book "Crossing Open Ground" with Barry Lopez
Jun. 19, 1989
Discussing the book "Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim" with Richard Pollak
Jan. 23, 1997
Discussing the book "Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays" with author and poet Bill Holm
Sep. 4, 1990
Discussing the book "Comfort" with the author David Michael Kaplan
1980

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