Women authors
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Janet Sternburg: Journal from a semi-private room
Janet Sternburg reads her autobiographical fiction, titled “Journal from a semi-private room.” Sternburg relates her experiences as an adult spending time in hospital with an injury to her arm. Her mother also goes to hospital and is operated on for cancer. She returns for a visit to her family home.
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Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel
“Hot Type” is a novel about a woman working on a newspaper in the 1960’s, struggling to get ahead but finding it very difficult. Includes discussion of early women in newspaper 1930’s, movement in 1940’s (because of war) women found jobs, but then pushed back in the 1950’s. By the 1960’s there were less women…
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Kate Millett reading from The Basement and Andrea Dworkin at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference (1978)
Contents: 1. Kate Millett reads from a new book (to be published in about a year) entitled The Basement: Meditations on a Case of Human Sacrifice, at the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, about a young woman tortured and killed for sex (November 5, 1978). 2. Exhortation to march at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography…
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Interview with Margaret Shedd
Interview with local author and prison activist Margaret Shedd (interviewer not identified in program or on reel box). Born at the turn of the century, Margaret talks informally about her life, writing, and women’s writing in general. Includes a short reading from one of her latest books, “Malinche and Cortés,” about the relationship between the…
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And not to yield: Ella Winter interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Ella Winter, author, foreign correspondent, world traveler, interviewed in studio by Elsa Knight Thompson concerning her life, views on society, government, communications. Ella was born in Australia, grew up in England, attended London School of Economics, and was married to two famous husbands: Lincoln Steffens and Donald Ogden Stewart. Her travels and observations about the…
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Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton
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Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic by Sorche Nic Leodhas
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An eclectic evening with Rosalyn Drexler and David Shapiro
This is part one of a performance which was presented live in Studio C at WBAI in November 1972. In Part One, David Shapiro plays the violin and reads his poetry and that of his young students from Bedford-Stuyvesant. In Part Two, Rosalyn Drexler sings torch songs from the 1920s and 1930s, and reads excerpts…
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Allies / by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s read by Viv Sutherland
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Author Lois Gould interviewed by Josephine Hendin