Writers Who Read and Readers Who Write
Author, book dealer, and the event's host, Larry McMurtry, discusses writers who read and readers who write with the authors Maureen Howard and Robert Stone. WNYC archives id: 8539
View ArticleBert Britton
Burt Britton discusses his 1976 book Self-Portrait: Book People Picture Themselves, a collection of self-portraits by well-known writers, editors, and publishers.WNYC archives id: 72999
View ArticleStarr Gazing; Turner 4 PREZ!; Media on Media; Magazine-Advertiser Conflicts...
Sunday, November 22, 1998 Kenneth Starr testifies before congress... will the press continue to have a different take than the public? This week, On the Media probes the people and the press on their...
View ArticleIs Nothing Sacred? Hidden Cameras in Mens rooms; Who's reading the news?;...
Sunday, May 31, 1998 How far will your local TV news go to get ratings? Stations across the country are taking hidden cameras into public restrooms. Find out why on the next On the Media. Also: can...
View ArticleNational Book Awards - Seventeenth Annual Awards Presentation
This is a recording of the The National Book Committee presentation of the 17th Annual National Book Awards, hosted by Mason Gross at the Lincoln Center Philharmonic Hall. Awards are presented to:...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics, New Jersey Politics, Trump's Pick for SCOTUS, Our...
Coming up on today's show:Molly Ball, national political correspondent, TIME , discusses the latest national political news.Matt Friedman, reporter for Politico New Jersey and author of New Jersey...
View ArticleSohnya Sayres
Writer Sohnya Sayres discusses the book The Sixties Without Apology, a collection of essays by and interviews with partisans of the 1960s including Sol Yurick, Stanley Aronowitz, Frederic Jameson,...
View ArticleReading and Guessing
Guest Marshall McLuhan says that, because every word has so many meanings, to read is to guess. As a result, sometimes even radio professionals like Bob Landers make mistakes in their readings!WNYC...
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Moss Hart, Act One
Moss Hart charms in this 1959 meeting of the Book and Author Luncheon. Hart is here to plug his new memoir, Act One. With his wife, the actress Kitty Carlisle, as well as the publisher Bennett Cerf and...
View ArticleNational Book Awards - Sixteenth Annual Awards Presention
This is a recording of the The National Book Committee presentation of the 16th Annual National Book Awards, hosted by Donald McGannon, President of the Book Committee. Awards are presented to:...
View ArticleSummer Reading 2017: Nonfiction
You might think "novel" when you think of summer reading, but nonfiction titles can be just as enthralling for your time off.Dana Williams, chair of the Department of English at Howard University,...
View ArticleEyewitness: The Negro in American History, An Interview with William Loren Katz
Richard Pyatt interviews William Loren Katz about his recent publication, Eyewitness: The Negro in American History and working with the Arno Press to reissue rare books on African American history,...
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1956 National Book Awards, Part 2 - Senator John F. Kennedy
JFK addresses his colleagues. Or are they his adversaries? In this speech at the 1956 National Book Awards, the junior senator from Massachusetts would appear to be among his fellow writers. As the...
View ArticleTruman Captoe
Truman Capote reads an excerpt from "Children on Their Birthdays" on Contemporary Literary Masters. This story was first published in 1948 and appears in the collection "A Tree of Night and Other...
View ArticleAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards
A discussion with the 1962 Anisfield-Wolf award winners. The Anisfield-Wolf awards are given to books that contribute to the understanding of racism. The authors and their books are John Howard Griffin...
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Three Big Books
You can lose yourself, WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, in three enormous coffee table books - no coffee table required. Here is the next Fishko Files. The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop...
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W. H. Auden, Herbert Kubly, and John O'Hara Speak at the 1956 National Book...
W.H. Auden and John O'Hara prove true to form in this recording of the 1956 National Book Awards. Auden, receiving the award for his collection The Shield of Achilles, is modest and professorial. He...
View ArticleMarshall McLuhan, Ralph Salerno, Peg Bracken
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1969-uu-uu.ARC Identifier: 132325 Local Identifier: 306-EN-Z-T-5681...
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Glenway Wescott's Images of Truth
Breaking a seventeen year silence, Glenway Wescott talks about his new book, Images of Truth, at this 1962 Books and Authors Luncheon. The gap seems almost as much a topic of conversation as what he...
View ArticleWe All Sag in the Middle: The Delightfully Indignant Edna Ferber
Popular best-sellers of the day, Edna Ferber's books also provided the stories for influential plays, musicals, and films. At this 1958 Books and Authors Luncheon, she talks about her new book, Ice...
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