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Samuel Noah Kramer: 10-06-1981
(1981-10-06)Samuel Noah Kramer was a Sumerian history and language expert and the author of over 25 books and 150 articles on Sumer. He begins the interview by reading a piece of Sumerian literature and continues by discussing what ... -
Sarah Freligh: 09-14-2016
(2016-09-14)In an interview conducted September 14, 2016, poet and teacher Sarah Freligh discusses her work. -
Seamus Heaney: 01-26-1984
(1984-01-26)Seamus Heaney opens this interview, recorded on January 26, 1984, with a reading of his poem "Digging." He discusses growing up in Ulster, Northern Ireland as a Catholic in a hostile political and cultural climate. Heaney ... -
Sejal Shah: 9/23/2020
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Sherwin B. Nuland: 10-04-2000
(2000-10-04)The non-fiction writer, surgeon, and former professor at Yale School of Medicine Sherwin B. Nuland begins the interview by reading a passage from his book The Mystery Within. The interview continues with Nuland discussing ... -
Stanley Plumly: 06-30-1982
(1982-06-30)In an interview conducted June 30, 1982, the poet Stanley Plumly discusses his work. -
Stanley Plumly: 6/30/1982
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Stephanie Powell Watts: 09-19-2018
(2018-09-19)In an interview conducted September 19, 2018, novelist and short story writer Stephanie Powell Watts discusses her work. -
Stephen Dobyns: 5/7/1969
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Tillie Olsen: 11-03-1977
(1977-11-03)Olsen soliloquizes about her mother, and about the power of faith in humanity that Olsen inherited from her mother. Olsen feels an affinity with Van Gogh in her effort to bear witness through art to the dignity of struggling ... -
Tim O'Brien: 12/2/1998
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Tobias Wolff: 4/30/1997
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Victoria Chang: 3/17/2021
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W. D. Snodgrass: 10/23/1968
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W. S. Merwin: 02-29-1968
(1968-02-29)Merwin discusses his changing poetic style, saying that he never stays excited about any style for very long, and that he now wants to write about direct experiences. He talks about the gradual abandonment of punctuation ... -
Walter Tevis: 03-27-1980
(1980-03-27)Walter Tevis begins this March 27, 1980 interview by reading the last chapter from his science fiction novel Mocking Bird, set in New York City during the 25th century. The principal character is Robert, a intelligent robot ... -
Wayne Dodd: 07-02-1982
(1982-07-02)Wayne Dodd was editor of The Ohio Review for 30 years. He begins this interview by discussing the connection of being a poet and an editor, and then reads his poem “Night Poem” and discusses the imagery. He continues by ... -
Weike Wang: 10-17-2018
(2018-10-17)Novelist Weike Wang discusses her work in an interview recorded October 17, 2018. -
William Cotter Murray: 02-20-1980
(1980-02-20)In an interview recorded February 21, 1980, W. Cotter Murray discusses growing up in Ireland and his interest in telling the story that has not already been told. -
William Demby: 10-07-1971
(1971-10-06)In an interview recorded on October 17, 1971, William Demby discusses his novels Beetlecreek and The Catacombs; Rome in the 1960s; the problem of defining what a Black writer is; and traveling between Italy and the United States.
