Russell Baker, author of Russell Baker's Book of American Humor, Looking Back, Growing Up, and several others, speaks with Don Swaim during this interview about the constantly changing opinions of books. Baker talks about the maturity level of the reader, and gives examples about books that he had once hated, but changed his opinion about the book later in life. He criticizes the school system for the way it teaches literature and tries to model his books in a different form to escape the chronological form.

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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.