Death in literature.

  • Interview with Gerda Lerner on her book A Death of One’s Own

    Tricia Del Longo interviews Dr. Gerda Lerner (1920 – 2013), an historian and pioneer in the field of women’s history. She recently published the book “A Death of One’s Own,” about her experiences with death, particularly that of her husband Carl Lerner. She discusses the right to die, the institutional neglect of the dying, her…

  • Dying words (Episode 8 of 29, Part 1 of 2)

    A concert reading by WBAI’s Word Players about death, in five loosely defined movements: Statistical, Literary, Anthropological, Camp, and Reality. Sources include Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, the World Almanac, Catullus, Lewis Carroll, The Book of the Dead, Kenneth Lillquist, Arthur Machen, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the “Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil…

  • Dying words (Episode 8 of 29, Part 2 of 2)

    A concert reading by WBAI’s Word Players about death, in five loosely defined movements: Statistical, Literary, Anthropological, Camp, and Reality. Sources include Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, the World Almanac, Catullus, Lewis Carroll, The Book of the Dead, Kenneth Lillquist, Arthur Machen, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the “Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil…

  • Heartsounds / by Martha Weinman Lear; interviewed by Barbara Cady

    Author discusses her book “Heartsounds” (Simon & Schuster), in which explains her experiences watching her husband, Dr. Harold Lear die. Interview by Barbara Cady.

  • Vampire stories / Robert Tracy and Joan Keefe ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy.

    Themes of vampires and death in Irish literature. Wanda McCadden reads from Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.|VAMPIRE STORIES / Robert Tracy and Joan Trodden Keeffe| produced by Padraigin McGuillicuddy. SERIES: Irish Contributions to English Literature| no. 4. It is no coincidence that the two greatest Vampire stories were written by two Irishmen at the end…