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Second in a two-part Interview with Melanie Goldman.
Mott Haven? "He might as well change the Harlem River to the Jordan."
An interview with Melanie Goldman.
The history of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's famous San Francisco bookstore City Lights.
Soda, pretzels, beer, and religious Undertones. What year is it (#579)?
The New York School and formal poetry.
Tracing the history of New York City's only commercial taxidermist.
Conversations with strangers on a 32-hour train journey through the mountains and the desert.
While kvetching might seem like the opposite of expressing gratitude for life, devout Jews view this differently.
For the first time out of anywhere I’ve lived, I can walk down to a body of water: Virginia Point.
Damon and Pythias, Creeley and Ashbery.
Flying to see a pool because of freedom.
Combining the houseful I grew up in with the one I made in the course of my life.
Who gets to identify as an avant-garde innovator.
Frederick the Great versus the “rogue judges” of his day.
Not sure I’m kosher.
A young woman's search for her birth parents.
A memoir from the Page 3 girl.
Mail carriers, travel agents, coal factory workers, and potato-chip inspectors working to write for a living.
The universe is a tricky place to navigate when you don’t know where you stand spinning the compass on a rocket to nowhere.
Frank O’Hara and refusing confessional poetry.
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.
The late author talks about short fiction, his disinterest in writing, and his distrust of computers.
The author talks about his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
I’ll skip St. Louis, but never Chicago. What year is it (#489)?
