Women authors

  • Kate Millett and her book Flying

    Kate Millett interviewed by Paul Vangelisti on her book “Flying” and her ideals about art in her life. Previously cataloged as “The artist and Flying.”

  • A Cabaret / with Terry Garthwaite, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Rosalie Sorrels ; produced by Edward Haber.

    This cabaret with Terry Garthwaite, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Rosalie Sorrels took place at the Anspacher Theater of the Public Theater in New York City on November 12, 1979. The three trade stories and songs in a very informal manner. Garthwaite, a former member of Joy of Cooking, is a rock and jazz artist, while…

  • The Complete travel guide to Cuba / Paula DiPerna ; interviewed by Bob Rosengrad.

    Paula DiPerna talks with Bob Rosengard about writing her book The Complete Travel Guide to Cuba (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979), the first travel guide to Cuba to have been published in over twenty years. She discusses topics from Havana’s gambling industry, the kinds of local cuisine, the quality of the beaches and how…

  • Fading rhythms in a fading land

    Two programs that focus on American attitudes towards the Vietnam War, based on Gloria Emerson’s book “Winners and losers: battles, retreats, gains, losses, and ruins from a long war” (Random House, 1976). Emerson first visited Vietnam in 1956 and returned as a NY Times correspondent in 1970, later resigning from the Times and joining the…

  • X-rays : more harm than good? / Priscilla Laws ; interviewed by Lynn Samuels.

    Priscilla Laws, author of “X-rays: More harm than good?” (Rodale Press, 1977) is interviewed by Lynn Samuels. She talks about the overuse (and misuse) of radiation in routine medical and dental procedures and urges people to learn as much as they can about it before consenting to X-ray exposure. She ties this into larger concerns…

  • A Conversation with Grace Paley / interviewed by Lin Harris.

    Grace Paley (1922 – 2007), author of the short story collections Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and Little Disturbances of Man, reads some of her short stories, and is interviewed by WBAI’s Lin Rosechild Harris about her career, her life and the short story form. Paley reads the stories: Enormous changes at the last…

  • Six women playwrights / produced by Lin Harris

    Six women playwrights, Corinne Jacker, Myrna Lamb, Ruth Wolff, Tina Howe, Alice Childress, and Honor Moore, read live at the Manhattan Theater Club on May 8, 1977. The evening’s program is introduced by Janet Sternberg, producer of the poetry series at the Manhattan Theater Club. Honor Moore, editor of “The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays…

  • A Symposium of women writers / Cynthia Ozick, Lois Gould, Jill Robinson, Muriel Rukeyser, and Ellen Moers.

    A symposium of women writers taped on March 16, 1976 at the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York. The symposium was held in celebration of the publication of Ellen Moers’ “Literary women” and was sponsored by Doubleday. Following the initial remarks of each panelist, the audience, consisting exclusively of women involved…

  • Myths and stereotypes / produced by Mary Lenox.

    Series which explores the accomplishments of Black women throughout history. Professor Mary Lenox challenges stereotypes and introduces new role models for Black women.|MYTHS AND STEREOTYPES / produced by Mary Lenox. SERIES: Black women : catalyst for change| no. 2 Series which explores the accomplishments of Black women throughout history. Professor Mary Lenox challenges stereotypes and…

  • The Making of Gertrude Stein / Janet Hobhouse ; interviewed by Charles Ruas.

    Charles Ruas discusses Gertrude Stein with Janet Hobhouse, author of a 1976 biography of Stein entitled “Everybody Who Was Anybody”, recorded May 11, 1976. Hobhouse discusses the influence of automatic writing on Gertrude Stein’s work and about the origins of her novel The Making of Americans. Originally aired as part 8 of a series on…