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Jane Smiley, author of Horse Heaven, Moo, and A Thousand Acres, talks to Don Swaim in 1989 about writing a book for ten years, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaching writing, and her novel, The Greenlanders.
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In this 1983 interview with Don Swaim, the short story writer and poet, Raymond Carver, talks about growing up in the Pacific Northwest, his writing life, and his struggle with alcoholism.
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Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Cats’ Eye, talks to Don Swaim in 1986 about growing up in the Canadian forests, her novels, her thoughts about religion and human rights, and why she...
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Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and The Heart of a Woman, tells how poetry cured her muteness, how she writes in the autobiographical and...
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, The Song of Solomon, Jazz, and Paradise, Toni Morrison talks about her early career, why every writer needs an editor, why she...
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- English language and literature
Two interviews, one from 1988 and one from 1992, in which Doris Lessing, author of The Fifth Child, The Golden Notebook, and several other pieces of literature, comes to talk with Don Swaim about her start...
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- English language and literature
Peter Ackroyd, author of Dickens: Public Life & Private Passion, and Dickens’ London, speaks with Don Swaim in this 1991 interview about the life of Charles Dickens. According to Peter Ackroyd, Charles...
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Ken Silverman, author of Edgar A Poe : Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance, Houdini!!!, Lightning Man : The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, and many more, discusses the life of Edgar Allan Poe with...
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Norman Sherry, author of The Life of Graham Greene series, speaks with Don Swaim in this 1989 interview about the life of Graham Greene. Norman Sherry shares insights into Greene’s life, who he was, and...
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Dotson Raider talks with Don Swaim in this 1985 interview about Raider’s relationship with the late playwright, Tennessee Williams. Dotson Raider was a close personal friend of Williams and is able to...
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