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1984

Two-minute or less radio features about books and writers heard on WCBS-AM and later syndicated by the CBS Radio Stations News Service. They're simple mp3 files. Click to listen or "save as" to load onto your device.

1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993

  • 01 Penn Kimball - "The File" 1-2-84
  • 02 Paul Fussell - "Class" 1-5-84
  • 03 Ron Hansen - "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" 1-9-84
  • 04 Alfred Appel Jr. - "Signs of Life," reading photos) 1-4-84
  • 05 Stanley Bard, manager, Chelsea Hotel - a literary landmark 1-16-84
  • 06 Walter Tevis - "The Steps of the Sun" 1-17-84
  • 07 Olga Sheppard, Ohio book store owner - store destroyed by plane 1-23-84
  • 08 William Kennedy - "Ironweed," "O Albany" 1-24-84
  • 09 Jack Newfield - "The Education of Jack newfield" 1-27-84.mp3
  • 10 Andrew Greeley, writer-priest - donates big sum to his alma mater 1-30-84
  • 11 Nigel Calder - "1984 and Beyond" 1-31-84
  • 12 Harold Evans - "Good Times, Bad Times" 2-1-84
  • 13 Calvin Trillin - "Killings" 2-3-84
  • 14 Richard M. Nixon, former president - "Real Peace" 2-6-84
  • 15 Jack Matthews - "Sassafras" 2-13-84.mp3
  • 16 Bill Lovert, Random House - recall of children's "Button Book" 2-15-84
  • 17 David Nevin - "Dream West") 2-16-84
  • 18 Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), poet - "Autobiography of LeRoi Jones" 2-20-84
  • 19 Tom Delong - "Pops," autobiography of Paul Whiteman 2-22-84
  • 20 Judy Blume - "Smart Women" 2-23-84
  • 21 William Burroughs - "Place of Dead Roads" 2-27-84
  • 22 William Least Heat-Moon - "Blue Highways" 3-1-84
  • 23 Jim Plummer - "A Gift From Maine" 3-6-84
  • 24 Robert McElvaine - "The Great Depression" 3-2-84
  • 25 Tom Wicker, New York Times reporter - "Unto This Hour" 3-8-84
  • 26 James Purdy - "On Glory's Course" 3-12-84
  • 27 Joe Flaherty (with John Scanlon om Flahert's posthumous book "Tin Wife") 3-20-84
  • 28 John Naisbitt - "Megatrends" 3-19-84
  • 29 Miniature Books (with Miriam Irwin of the Mosaic Press, Cincinnati) 3-21-84
  • 30 Claire Francis - "Night Sky" 3-23-84.mp3
  • 31 Andrew Greeley, writer-priest - "Lord of the Dance" 3-26-84
  • 32 Christian Romances ( with editor Eta Wilson of Nelson Publishing) 2-18-84
  • 33 Robert Houston - "The Nation Thief" 3-29-84
  • 34 Marge Piercy - "Fly Away Home" 4-9-84
  • 35 Robert Barnard, mystery writer - "School for Murder" 4-13-84
  • 36 Robert Ludlum - "The Aquitaine Progression" 4-16-84
  • 37 New Overbrook Press - "The Lost Ones" by Samuel Beckett (with publisher Charles Altschul) 4-19-84
  • 38 Bob Reiss - "The Casco Deception" 4-20-84
  • 39 Samuels Charters - "Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night" 4-23-84
  • 40 Book Notes, miscellaneous commentary 4-15-84
  • 41 Bernice Rubens - "Brothers" 4-26-84
  • 42 A.E. Hotchner - "Choice People" 4-30-84
  • 43 Brian Aldiss - "Helliconia Summer" 5-2-84
  • 44 Martyn Burke - "The Commissar's Report" 5-4-84
  • 45 Dick Francis - "The Danger" 5-7-84
  • 46 Jody Powell, President's Carter Press Secretary - "The Other Side of the Story" 5-10-84
  • 47 Donald McCaig - "Nop's Trials" 5-11-84
  • 48 Sloan Wilson - "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit II" 5-14-84
  • 49 Americans in Paris (with Brian Morton) 5-17-84
  • 50 Charlotte Chandler - "The Ultimate Seduction" 5-18-84
  • 51 Barney Rosset, publisher, Grove Press 5-21-84
  • 52 Poets Corner, St. John the Devine (with Daniel Haberman, poet-in-residence) 5-24-84
  • 53 Book Industry Study Group (with John Taylor of Market Facts) 5-25-84
  • 54 Censorship-500 Years of Conflict (with Evan Hunter, Kurt Vonnegut, Barnet Rossett, Judy Blume, Cal Thomas, etc) 5-28-84
  • 55 William Murray, mystery writer - "Tip on a Dead Crab" 6-4-84
  • 56 Whitley Streiber - "War Day" 6-7-84
  • 57 William McPherson - "Testing the Current" 6-11-84
  • 58 Bill Adler, book packager (solution to "Who Killed the Robbins Family?") 6-13-84
  • 59 John Lahr - "Automatic Vaudville" 6-14-84
  • 60 Gail Parent - "A Little Bit Married" 6-15-84
  • 61 Richard Shickel - "D.W. Griffith, An American Life" 6-18-84
  • 62 Robert B. Parker - the Spenser novels 6-20-84
  • 63 Evan Hunter (Ed McBain) - "The Blackboard Jungle," "Lizzie" 6-25-84
  • 64 Gordon Lish - "What I Know So Far" 6-28-84
  • 65 William L. Shirer, broadcast pioneer - "The Nightmare Years" 7-2-84
  • 66 Georgi Markov (murdered Bulgarian dissident - with widow Annabel Markov, "The Truth That Killed") 7-9-84
  • 67 Bob Greene - "Good Morning Merry Sunshine"7-11-84
  • 68 Louis L'Amour - "The Walking Drum" 7-16-84
  • 69 Roy Blount Jr. - "What Men Don't Tell Women" 7-19-84
  • 70 Robert Creeley - "Collected Poetry," "Collected Prose" 7-23-84
  • 71 Kit Williams, magical U.K. artist - "Book Without a Name" 7-26-84
  • 72 John Updike - "The Witches of Eastwich" 7-30-84
  • 73 Kenneth Davis (history of paperback books, "Two-Bit Culture") 8-6-84
  • 74 Twilla Ligget (producer, PBS's Reading Rainbow) 8-8-84
  • 75 Jan Herald Brunvald (urban legends, "The Choking Doberman") 8-9-94
  • 76 T. Gertler - "Elbowing the Seducer" 8-13-84
  • 77 Anne Edwards (library lending rights for authors) 8-17-84
  • 78 Anthony West on his father H.G. Wells - "Aspects of a Life" 8-20-04
  • 79 Edward Zuckerman - "The Day After WW III" 8-27
  • 80 Alfred Kazin, famed literary critic - "American Procession" 9-10-84
  • 81 Leslie Gourse (on the great jazz singers, "Louis' Children") 9-12-84
  • 82 Walter Tevis (obituary) 8-15-84
  • 83 James Agee (with Lawrence Bergreen, "James Agee, a Life" 9-24-04
  • 84 American Mercury (with publisher Richard Russell on a facsimile of H.L. Mencken's magazine) 9-27-84
  • 85 William Heyen (poet remembers the Holocaust, "Erika") 10-1-84
  • 86 Gregory McDonald (thriller writer on the Fletch and Flynn books) 10-4-84
  • 87 Joseph Heller - "God Knows" 10-8-84
  • 88 Robert Byrne (civil engineer turned novelist on building disasters, "Skyscraper") 10-15-84
  • 89 Truman Capote (memorial service in New York) 10-16-84
  • 90 "Titters 101" (with writers Anne Beatts, Deanne Stillman) 10-17-84
  • 91 Alice Adams - "Superior Women" 10-18-84
  • 92 Josef Skvorescky (Czech dissident writer, "Engineer of Human Souls") 10-22-84
  • 93 George Forss, David Douglas Duncan (photographers, "New York New York") 10-24-84
  • 94 Frederick Forsythe - "The Fourth Protocol" 10-25-84
  • 95 Terry Kay, Georgia writer - "Dark Thirty" 10-29-84
  • 96 Alberto Alvarado Rios (Arizona poet) 11-1-84
  • 97 Lady Antonia Fraiser - "The Weaker Vessel"10-31-84
  • 98 Howard Fast - "The Outsider" 11-5-84
  • 99 Francesca Stanfill - "Shadows and Light" 11-12-84
  • 100 Dennis Smith (firefighter turned author, "Steeley Blue") 11-14-84
  • 101 Alison Lurie - "Foreign Affairs"11-15-84
  • 102 John Gardner (British - author of the James Bond novels, "Role of Honor") 11-19-84
  • 103 William Katz (thriller writer, "Surprise Party") 11-2-84
  • 104 Thomas McGuane - "Something to be Desired" 11-22-84
  • 105 David Schoenbrun, distinguished CBS News correspondent - "America Inside and Out" 11-26-84
  • 106 Gerald Greene - "Not in Vain" 12-3-84
  • 107 William Kennedy - "The Ink Truck" 12-5-84
  • 108 Shari Lewis, ventriloquist, author of 22 kids' books 12-7-84
  • 109 Thomas Merton (with biographer Michael Mott, "The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton") 12-10-84
  • 110 Victor Navasky - "The Experts Speak" 12-13-84
  • 111 David Payne - "Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street" 12-17-84
  • 112 Joe McGuinniss - "Fatal Vision" 12-19-84
  • 113 Ian Ballantine (paperback book pioneer, founder of Bantam, Ballantine Books) 12-20-84
  • 114 F. Scott Fitzgerald (with biographer James Mellow, "Invented Lives") 12-24-84
  • 115 Herbert Gold - "Mister White Eyes" 12-26-84
  • 116 James Dickey, poet - profile 12-31-84

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