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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. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Visit the Wired for Books Don Swaim Page.

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Kids' Corner - Featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a dramatic audio performance of the classic book. "Delightful,"says The Guardian of London.	Listen to Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol in audio. A dramatic audio performance by the Wired for Books Players. "Critics' Choice" --The Guardian	The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, an audio performance. More Shakespeare plays and poems at Wired for Books	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, an unabridged audio book, performed by the Wired for Books Players.
Joan Connor reads two of her short stories, The Joy of Being Comforted and Men in Brown.	The " master of prose conversation and deadpan charm" Jack Matthews reads his short story, The Girl at the Window.	J. Allyn Rosser reads her poetry, including Late Elvis, Sole Blessing, Password and Raven.	Listen to Wayne Dodd reading from his work, including On Any Given Afternoon and Naming the Winter.	Prize-winning poet Sharmila Voorakkara reads her poems from Fire Wheel.
John Bullock reads from his novel, Making Faces.	Laura Lee Parrotti reads the poetry of Emily Dickinson including the Love series and the Life series.	Daniel Keyes, author of Flowers for Algernon, and the real-life drama, The Minds of Billy Milligan, talks about his life of writing.	Michelle Herman reads and sings her essay, Performance	The African American Oral Tradition, an exploration of sermon, song, and poetry, by Herbert Woodward Martin.
Taken hostage in the Lebanese civil war, Terry Anderson was imprisoned for nearly seven years. He reads the Den of Lions poems.	Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Dave Smith reads fifteen of his favorite poems.	Lia Purpura, author of Stone Sky Lifting, reads her poems for Wired for Books.	Mark Halliday reads a few of his favorite poems, including Parkersburg, and Schnetzerday.	Clea Simon talks about her mystery novel, Mew is for Murder, and her nonfiction books, including Mad House.
Robert Pinsky, US Poet Laureate, reads three of his poems: ABC, Samurai Song, and The Want Bone. Interviews by Mark Halliday and John Ray are included.	Bonnie Proudfoot reads her poetry, including Coping with Awe and News from the Edge of the World.	Martin Sheen reads Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's famous poem, My Country Awake, at a rally for the people of Appalachia.	Eloise Klein Healy, poet, teacher, and winner of the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, reads her favorite poems.	Richard Sater reads selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
Listen to an interview with novelist Rochelle Shapiro, author of Miriam the Medium.	Darrell Spencer, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, presents his short story, Song and Dance.	Listen to an interview with Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble.	Robert Kinsley, author of Field Stones, offers poems from his book.	Cindy Bonner: Romance and Rascals in the Wild, Wild West an essay by Janis Butler Holm.
Walter Tevis talks about chess, science fiction, speculative fiction, and his novels of the future.	Jamie Tevis talks about Walter Tevis, author of the novels The Hustler, The Color of Money, and The Man Who Fell to Earth.	Racial Realities and Amazing Alternatives: Studying the Works of Samuel R. Delany by Jeffrey Allen Tucker.	Author of On N'est Pas Serieux Quand On A Dix-sept Ans (Nobody Is Serious when They're Seventeen), Barbara Samson talks about living with HIV.	Thomas Lynch is a poet and funeral director. He reads from The Undertaking and Grimalkin & Other Poems.
Richard Compson Sater reads A. E. Housman's collection of poems, A Shropshire Lad, including To An Athlete Dying Young.	Listen to The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart, written by the early master of gloom and horror, Edgar Allan Poe.	Listen to readings of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Extracts from Adam's Diary,and Eve's Diary by Mark Twain.	Jack Wright reads his short story, A Lost Wedding Ring: A Winter's Tale. You can also watch his short documentary film, Primitive Things.	Poems by Michael Bugeja from his book, Talk.
Listen to Archer Mayor, winner of the 2004 New England Book Award for Fiction, tell how he switched from writing history books to writing novels.	Join Marilyn Atlas and Edgar Whan and special guests Daniel Born, Annette Oxindine, Peter Heidtmann and Vattel Rose as they discuss the stories of Raymond Carver, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Leo Tolstoy.	The Iliad - Book I - The story of a raging anger and its human toll. The poem recounts "the rage of Achilles," the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting in the war against Troy. Listen to Stanley Lombardo read Homer's The Iliad - Book I in ancient Greek.	The Aeneid - Book IV - Driven by fate to seek a new land for himself, his family, and the survivors of Troy, Aeneas abandons Carthage and his lover Dido. Valahfridus (Wilfried) Stroh reads Virgil's The Aeneid in Latin.	Avant-garde artist Aethelred Eldridge reads Milton by William Blake.
Richard Stevens reads a few of his favorite classic English poems.	Listen to a reading of Charlie Kearn's play, Blue Rock.	Michelle Disler reads from The James Bond Alphabet and other essays from the James Bond project.	Listen to the short story, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry.	Dan Chaon reads his short story, Shepherdess.
Poetry Online from Wired for Books. All of our poems and poets in one place.	Trifles: A Play in One Act, written by Susan Glaspell and directed by Karen Chan.	Listen to P. L. Gaus read from his novel, Separate from the World.	Eula Biss reads her essays, Babylon and The Only Professional Player of the Toy Piano.

Wired for Books brings the literary festival to you. Listen to readings and lectures of noted writers,
all featured guests of the Ohio University Spring Literary Festival.

Lee K. Abbott	Rick Bass	Claire Bateman	Frank Bidart	Stephen Dunn	Andrea Dworkin	Lynn Emanuel
Thomas Glave	Michael Griffith	Barry Hannah	Jim Harrison	Kathryn Harrison	Amy Hempel	Tony Hoagland
Antonya Nelson	Sharon Olds	Francine Prose	Andrew Sarris	Eleanor Wilner

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