American Women — Authors and journalists
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Incest / produced by Pearl Skotnes.
Interview with Louise Armstrong, author of Kiss Daddy Goodnight, A Speak-Out on Incest (New York: Harcourt Books, 1978). Armstrong discusses the experiences that lead her to write the book, and some of the myths and facts surrounding incest. Includes a clip of Audre Lorde reading her poem Chain; music by Meg Christian (“Scars”), Margie Adam…
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The Photographer as discoverer : Dorothea Lange / Milton Meltzer interviewed by Susan Anderson.
Susan Anderson interviews Milton Meltzer, writer and historian, about his book, “A photographer’s life,” a biography of the great American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965). Meltzer describes the genesis behind much of her work as a photographer of migrant labor communities, her travels around the United States, and her writing, which often accompanied her…
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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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Kate Millett and her book Flying
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Interview with Dian Thomas, author of Roughing It Easy
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Interview with Pat Derby, author of The Lady and Her Tiger