From the Vault 406: Ishmael Reed

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From the Vault 406: Ishmael Reed
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PZ0673.406
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This week on From the Vault in celebration of Black History Month, we present an early interview with Mr. Ishmael Reed, the prolific novelist, poet, librettist, songwriter, essayist and publisher, nominated for the distinguished Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award honors and also a 1998 recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Genius Award.

Early in Mr. Reed's career as a young writer and publisher of the now classic literary magazine Yardbird Reader, he co-hosted a program on Pacifica's flagship station KPFA called The Yard Bird Hour with Toby Lawson and Al Young. On June 6, 1970 Reed sat down with a KPFA producer to speak about the arts and literature and their relevance to the social movements of the day, referencing the first two novels he had written at that time, The Freelance Pallbearers (1967) and Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969), as well as his latest collection of poetry, 19 Necromancers From Now (1970). But first we'll listen to Mr. Reed in an interview recorded February 12, 2014, in which he reflects on the value of the Pacifica Radio Archives.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the GRAMMY Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration, and past grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners. We also thank our partners and collaborators at the Pop-Up Archive, Amara, Other Minds Archives, George Blood Audio, and the California Audio Visual Preservation Project.

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RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
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