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Audio Interview with E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow, author of Billy Bathgate, World's Fair, Loon Lake, and Welcome to Hard Times, talks with Don Swaim about the time Doctorow spent studying philosophy at Kenyon College in Ohio and how that lead to discovering his love of critically deconstructing literature. Doctorow also stresses the importance of the editing process and the relationship between the writer and the editor.

Listen to the E.L. Doctorow interview with Don Swaim, 1986
(44 min. 51 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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