Audio Interview with William Boyd

William Boyd, a native of Ghana, discusses with Don Swaim the humor in Boyd's novel, Stars and Bars, and compares himself to the main character. They also discuss the difficulties of being a writer today, and the differences between British and American cultures. Boyd is also the author of Brazzaville Beach, The Blue Afternoon and A Good Man in Africa, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.

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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.