Audio Interviews with Christopher Cerf

Listen to the Christopher Cerf interview with Don Swaim, 1986
(19 min. 57 sec.)

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Christopher Cerf discusses his book Free to Be a Family, which is about many different types of families, and is a sequal to a book called Free to Be You and Me. Cerf also discusses his time at Harvard University where he studied English and worked on the Harvard Lampoon. He also talks about writing his own songs in this 1988 interview with Don Swaim.

Listen to the Christopher Cerf interview with Don Swaim, 1988
(18 min. 32 sec.)

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In this 1991 interview, Christopher Cerf talks with Don about his latest project, The Book of Sequels, which he collaborated with the American Sequels Society to write. Some of the famous stories that are satirically retold in the book include Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye and Space Odyssey 2001.

Listen to the Christopher Cerf interview with Don Swaim, 1991
(27 min. 33 sec.)

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In this 1992 interview with Don Swaim, Christopher Cerf discusses the Modern Library, which publishes classic books as well as modern classic books. He also discusses how the library was started in 1918 by Albert Boni and Liveright, and became one of the most important publishing houses in the 1920's. Christopher Cerf's father, Bennett Cerf became the publisher in 1925.

Listen to the Christopher Cerf interview with Don Swaim, 1992
(24 min. 33 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 their entirety.