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Don Swaim Interviews

Reynolds Price discusses his recent induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his recently published book Good Hearts . In High school he knew he wanted to be a writer and teacher. He graduated from Duke University and he now teaches at the University and also continues to write. He also talks of going through radiation for a malignant tumor in his spinal cord in this 1988 interview with Don Swaim.

Listen to the Reynolds Price interview with Don Swaim, 1988
(36 min. 25 sec.)

Reynolds Price talks with Don during this 1990 interview about his latest novel, The Tongues of Angels, and he tells us about the basis for his main character. Don and Reynolds also discuss childhood camp stories, the racial outlook of America, and the difference between Southerners and the rest of America. Price is also the author of Letter to a Man On Fire, A Whole New Life, and many more.

Listen to the Reynolds Price interview with Don Swaim, 1990
(29 min. 53 sec.)

In this 1992 interview with Don Swaim, Reynolds Price discusses his book Blue Calhoun and how he got the inspiration for the book from his relatives whom all had had relationships with women who were not their wives. His book focuses around passion and why people do the things they do sexually as well as incest.

Listen to the Reynolds Price interview with Don Swaim, 1992
(28 min. 44 sec.)