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Audio Interviews with Doris Lessing |
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Doris Lessing, author of African Stories, The Fifth Child, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and many more stories, poems, essays, and novels, comes to talk with Don Swaim about her start as a writer, the difficulties that she encountered, and what she has done to challenge herself as a writer. Listen
to the Doris Lessing interview with Don Swaim, June 1, 1988, RealAudio MP3 File Doris Lessing comes back for a second interview with Don Swaim in 1992 and she talks about her opera and how she considers herself a workaholic. She says she is descended from a long line of dreamy men and women going mad from exasperation. Lessing discusses growing up in the racist culture of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and talks about her latest book, African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe. Listen
to the Doris Lessing interview with Don Swaim, October 8, 1992, RealAudio MP3 File |
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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. © Ohio University |
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