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  • John Sayles

    Terkel reads from John Sayles' short stories.

    Reading from the collection of short stories, the Anarchists' convention

  • Flannery O'Connor

    Studs Terkel remembers Flannery O'Connor on WFMT reading from "Everything that rises must converge"

    Oct. 26, 1965

    Studs Terkel discusses Flannery O'Connor (part 1 of 2). Includes reading of the short story "Revelation." Includes song "Amazing Grace." NOTE: Content is the same as part two, but contains several seconds more of silence at the end where part two does not have several seconds of silence.

  • Flannery O'Connor

    Studs Terkel remembers Flannery O'Connor on WFMT reading from "Everything that rises must converge"

    Oct. 26, 1965

    Studs Terkel discusses Flannery O'Connor (part 2 of 2). Includes reading of the short story "Revelation." Includes song "Amazing Grace." NOTE: Content is the same as part one, but contains several seconds less of silence at the end where part one has several seconds of silence.

  • Stuart Dybek reads from and discusses his book "The Coast of Chicago"

    May. 7, 1990

    Hearing Chopin being played through the pipes of another apartment and a tale about a young girl who died and whose father froze her body in an ice house are among the stories in Stuart Dybek's book, "The Coast of Chicago." Dybek explained that although his stories may seem dream-like, he tries to come up up with stories from some place of reality.

  • Discussing the books "Back in the World: Stories" and "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: A Collection of Short Stories" with the author Tobias Wolff

    Oct. 18, 1985
  • Discussing the book "The Night in Question: Stories" with the author Tobias Wolff

    Nov. 6, 1996

    *Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Calvin (Bud) Trillin

    Discussing the book "American Stories" with the author, humorist and poet Calvin Trillin

    Oct. 18, 1991
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