Literature — Women authors.
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Isabel Allende: All About Love
Produced recording for KPFA’s Eleventh Hour. Features Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende’s lecture on love in Berkeley, CA on February 14, 1996. Using personal anecdotes, stories from friends, and reading from an essay originally printed in 1987 in the magazine “Paula” about her first sexual encounter with her husband, Willie Gordon, Allende celebrates love of all…
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Dramatic reading of Carson McCullers’ “Correspondence”
Dramatic reading of Carson McCullers’ short story “Correspondence”. The story consists of four letters written by high school freshman Henrietta “Henky” Evans to her Brazilian pen pal between 1941-1942. Unproduced recording. “Correspondence” is published in “Collected stories : including The member of the wedding and The ballad of the sad café” (1987), but volume from…
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The Female Angst / Anais Nin, Joan Didion, and Dory Previn ; interviewed by Sally Davis
Acclaimed writers Anais Nin (1903-1977) author of “The Diary of Anais Nin,” Joan Didion, author of “Play It As It Lays,” and Dory Previn, author of “Midnight Baby” are interviewed by Sally Davis, and give insightful interviews that shed light on their personalities. The three women are interviewed individually and discuss general themes of women’s…
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The Female Angst (Part 2 of 2) / Anais Nin, Joan Didion, and Dory Previn ; interviewed by Sally Davis
Acclaimed writers Anais Nin (1903-1977) author of “The Diary of Anais Nin,” Joan Didion, author of “Play It As It Lays,” and Dory Previn, author of “Midnight Baby” are interviewed by Sally Davis, and give insightful interviews that shed light on their personalities. Nin states: “…never give anybody the power to decide what is right…
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A Room of one’s own / by Virginia Woolf.
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, read by Alice B. Toklas
Alice Toklas reading from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. From the folio “It isn’t really an autobiography, of course, because it was written by Gertrude Stein, which is known as too many ironies in the fire. This selection is taken from the Verve record (MGV-15017),…
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Simone de Beauvoir : in conversation / with Studs Terkel ; narrated by Janet Dodson.
Simone de Beauvoir (b.1908- d.1986) French writer, intellectual, political activist, and feminist is interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1960. For 1977 broadcast, narrator Janet Dodson reads excerpts from de Beauvoir’s books, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Prime of Life, All Said and Done and The Second Sex. Recording ends abruptly (perhaps part 1 of 2?)…
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Mrs. Dalloway / by Virginia Woolf ; read by Maureen McIlroy.