Anais Nin (1902-1977) introduces this program as a summary of many discussions she's had while traveling and speaking all over the United States on writing and the "novel of the future." She says her novel of the future will employ such diverse techniques as the interior monologue, stream of consciousness, symbolism, abstraction, and metaphor, to interpret character and experience, and which stems from writers such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence. The program is interspersed with readings from her work "Realism and Reality". Recording likely a rebroadcast of a July 13, 1960 program, though there is no indication on the tape box or record.
This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email: americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.
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