Women authors

  • Second Birth: Anais Nin At College Of Marin, California, 1973

    Anais Nin [1903-1977] speech to students at College of Marin, California, 1973. She discusses the necessity of a second birth–the search for inner strength and the initiation of indidvidual growth. She believes the only way we as people can face the despairs and horrors of history is to conquer our own prejudices, become more sensitive…

  • Conversation with Theodora Kroeber / interviewed by Eleanor Sully

    Theodora Kroeber (March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979), author of the much-loved book Ishi in Two Worlds, talks with Eleanor Sully about her new book about her anthropologist husband, Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuation. Kroeber reads a section called “Religion” from the book, which was published by University of California Press, 1970.

  • Alice Walker : the color purple / produced by Laurie Udesky and Corless Smith.

    This program contains an interview, a speech, and readings from Alice Walker’s book, “The Color Purple.” In the interview, Walker talks about God, faith, lesbians, publishers and writing as healing. Walker also talks about writing in dialect. The readings are intermixed with music. Walker’s talks were recorded at Old Wives’ Tales in San Francisco and…

  • 13th Moon: A reading of feminist literature

    This program is a live reading sponsored by feminist literary magazine “13th Moon,” recorded on March 18, 1981 in Washington Heights. Reading opened by 13th Moon’s publisher Ellen Marie Bissert. Readers include poet Robin Morgan (b. 1941) and novelist Alix Kates Shulman (1932). Broadcast on March 18, 1981.

  • Adrienne Rich reads from Susan Griffin’s “Woman and Nature”

    Adrienne Rich (1928 – 2012), poet and author, reads excerpts from Susan Griffin’s Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), a book she introduces as being “essential reading.” She reads first from the book’s introduction, which speaks on the subject of challenging the prevailing androcentric world view. In the…

  • Interview with Susan Sontag

    Author Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004) is interviewed by WBAI’s Nanette Rainone in October 1973. They discuss the resignation of Spiro Agnew, the Watergate scandal and the Irving Committee, the false rhetoric of the “drug war”, the ties between patriarchy and fascism, and the ideology behind sexual liberation. Produced by Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Union Maids / Vicky Starr aka Stella Nowicki; produced by Sophie’s Parlor Media Collective.

    Interview with Vicky Starr (1916-2009), featured as “Stella Nowicki” in the documentary film “Union Maids” (1976) about three Chicago women labor union activists from the 1930s. The film was based on the three women from Chicago (Stella Nowicki, Kate Hyndman, and Sylvia Woods) in the labor history book Rank and File by Staughton and Alice…

  • Heliotrope : a woman’s magazine / Mary Bailey ; interviewed by Sandra Porter

    Sandra Porter interviews Mary Bailey, co-founder of the feminist publication “Heliotrope.” Davita Maron was her co-founder. Host, Sandra Porter is also a contributor, and the two women discuss their work with the publication and the writing of women in general. (Label spells the journal “heileatroupe” which was likely incorrect)