Audio Interview with Alfred Alcorn

In this 1988 interview with Don Swaim, Alfred Alcorn talks about his newspaper background, his career in radio, and his job in a natural history museum. Alcorn also highlights his desire to "write for the reader" in fiction after many years serving as a journalist. Recapturing New England farm life in the 1950s was Alcorn's goal in publishing The Pull of the Earth, a novel that he describes as a tragedy. In this book, he sees rural New England in the 1950s as a time that saw the disappearance of a way of life. Alcorn describes his field research for his novel, Vestments. Dressed as a priest, he walked through Boston and recorded the changes in the way people treated him.

Listen to the Alfred Alcorn interview with Don Swaim, 1988, RealAudio
(24 min. 58 sec.)

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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 RealAudio.