In this 1985 interview, author of A Violent Act and Big Sugar, Alec Wilkinson talks with Don Swaim about Wilkinson's experiences as a young policeman and his knack for creating rock and roll music in college. In addition, he discusses the duties of a writer for the New Yorker and describes how his book, Moonshine Midnights, was created. Wilkinson is the recipient of a Lyndhurst Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a Guggenheim fellowship.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in their entirety.