Women writers

  • Virginia Woolf: voices that fly ahead / produced by Maureen McIlroy

    Part one of a documentary on Virginia Woolf, her work, and her life, based on the letters, diaries, and published works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, in an original production for KPFK by Maureen McIlroy. Madness, love and death are among the themes traced through Virginia Woolf’s life into her novels. The KPFK Folio description…

  • The Politics of making it.

    Women artists and writers discuss and examine the anatomy of success and its relationship to power, influence and self-fulfillment. The participants are Shirley Clarke, filmmaker; Louise Nevelson, sculptor; Rosalyn Drexler, playwright; and Vivian Gornick, writer and moderator of the discussion. Recorded at the Women’s InterArt Center in New York City. Produced for WBAI by Susan…

  • Current themes in women’s writing : masturbation / produced by Irene Schram, Ellen Turner, Dorothy Engleman and Linda Cohen.

    This program explores the evolution of women’s consciousness through poetry, prose, fiction, and non-fiction. The theme of this tape is masturbation. Produced by Irene Schram, Ellen Turner, Dorothy Engleman, and Linda Cohen of WBAI Women’s Radio Workshop. Contains conversations, interviews, readings, and songs. Songs include “Conjugations of gravity” by Alex Dobkin; “Big orgasm” by Women…

  • Kay Boyle interviewed by Eleanor Sully

    Author Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) talks with Eleanor Sully and reads from her own work. Boyle talks about her life and work, Huey Newton, the black movement, the strike at San Francisco State College, her students, and Dr. Hayakawa. She reads her short story “Black Boy” and a long poem,…