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Don Swaim Interviews

Audio Interview with Stephen Wright

Stephen Wright, Vietnam veteran and author, talks with Don Swaim about the Vietnam War and Wright's novel, Meditations in Green. Wright grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Ohio State University until he was drafted into the Army in 1969. Wright became an intelligence specialist and spent a year in Vietnam. He talks about the draft, the drug culture in Vietnam, the brutality of the war, and the extreme complexity of the conflict.

Listen to the Stephen Wright interview with Don Swaim, November 3, 1983
(18 min. 52 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.

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