American Women — Authors and journalists

  • Washington report-July 27, 1971: Underground syndicate / Thomas King Forcade

    Washington based U.P.S. correspondent Thomas King Forcade (1945-1978) discusses alternative jounalism. Interview by Margot Adler.

  • Maureen McIlroy reads

    Maureen McIlroy reads two short stories: “War” by Luigi Pirandello, and “Near a church” from “Let us now praise famous men” by James Agee.

  • Interview with Anais Nin / interviewed by Clare Spark.

    Diarist Anais Nin (1903 – 1977) discusses the women’s liberation movement with KPFK’s Clare (Loeb) Spark. First 37 minutes contains interview segment (same recording as BB5234). Second part of recording is Loeb reading the article “Set Out for Clayton!” by Harold Rosenberg from the January 2, 1971 New Yorker.

  • The literary world of Anais Nin

    Clare Spark (nee Loeb) interviews author Anais Nin (pronounced “Anna-EES” “NEEN”). Program begins with two songs about “emancipated women” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” songs which Loeb chose specifically for Ms. Nin. BB4200 is a edited, lower quality version of this recording. Series name written on box is “The Scene – Artists and Art,” but…

  • Anais Nin on women’s liberation / interviewed by Clare Spark.

    Author Anais Nin (1903 – 1977) discusses the women’s rights movement with KPFK’s Clare (Loeb) Spark. Nin criticizes the feminist movement for what she takes to be the generally angry and blaming tone of many of the movement’s leaders, and cautions against the projection of women’s neuroses onto the revolution. Originally broadcast on KPFK as…

  • Lone heart mountain

    A reading of Lone Heart Mountain (Los Angeles, 1972), an autobiographical account by American artist Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899 – 1990) of her experience in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during WWII. Read by Maureen McIlroy in three parts: reel one contains the chapters Prologue, Introduction, Uprooting, Departure, and Lone Heart Mountain; reel…

  • Anais Nin / interviewed by Clare Spark

    Anais Nin discusses her life and work with KPFK’s Clare Spark (nee Loeb). This is a shorter, edited version of BB5233. 

  • Nathalie Sarraute at the YMWHA Poetry Center / introduced by Susan Sontag.

    French novelist and dramatist Nathalie Sarraute (1900 – 1999) discusses her work and her literary ideology in a talk given at the Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA in New York City. Sarraute talks about the “nouveau roman” (New Novel) school of literature to which she belongs, which called for novelists to search for new narrative…

  • The trial of Dr. Spock / Jessica Mitford ; interviewed by Dale Minor.

    Dale Minor interviews Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) on her newly published book “The Trial of Dr. Spock” and on Spock’s trial for promoting draft resistance.

  • A conversation with Doris Lessing / interviewed by Richard Keffler

    Doris Lessing, the author of The Golden Notebooks and other novels, talks with free-lance writer Richard Koffler about society and writing. The program was specially recorded for Pacifica at the London studios of the BBC. RECORDED: by the BBC in London, England. BROADCAST: WBAI, 13 Oct. 1963.