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  • Discussing the book "The Pelican and After: A Novel About Emotional Disturbance" with the author Tom Wallace Lyons

    Jan. 23, 1984
  • Discussing the book "The Night Parade: Poems"with poet Edward Hirsch

    Apr. 21, 1989
  • 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 

  • Discussing the book "The Joy of Reading: 210 Favorite Books, Plays, Poems, Essays, Etc.: What's in Them, Why Read Them" with the author and editor Charles Van Doren

    Jan. 7, 1986
  • Discussing the book "Saigon, Illinois" with author Paul Hoover

    Jan. 25, 1989
  • Discussing the book "One Writer's Beginnings" (published by Harvard University Press) with author Eudora Welty and New Stage Theatre founder and director Jane Reid-Petty.

    Aug. 12, 1997

    New State Theatre is Mississippi's only nonprofit professional theatre.

  • Discussing the book "Mile Zero" with the author, novelist Thomas Sanchez

  • Discussing the book "Long Road Home" with novelist Ron Taylor

    Jun. 22, 1989
  • Discussing the book "Lake Wobegon Days,"with the author and radio host Garrison Keillor

    Aug. 5, 1986
  • Discussing the book "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" with Peter Matthiessen

    Sep. 13, 1983
  • Discussing the book "In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War" with author Tobias Wolff

    Oct. 25, 1994
  • Calvin (Bud) Trillin

    Discussing the book "If You Can't Say Something Nice" with the author, humorist and poet Calvin Trillin

    Nov. 30, 1988
  • Discussing the book "Hocus Pocus" with the author, novelist Kurt Vonnegut

    Oct. 11, 1990
  • Discussing the book "Get Shorty" with the author Elmore Leonard

    Jul. 31, 1991
  • Discussing the book "Freedom Rising" with James North

    Apr. 18, 1985
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