Audio Interviews with Ian Hamilton
about Robert Lowell and J. D. Salinger

Ian Hamilton, who is an editor, poet and biographer, talks with Don Swaim about the poet, Robert Lowell. Hamilton defends Lowell as the leader of the poetic community. Ian Hamilton became friends with Robert Lowell after publishing some of Lowell's poems and he would later write Lowell's biography, Robert Lowell.

Listen to the Ian Hamilton interview with Don Swaim, 1982
(31 min. 28 sec.)

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In this 1988 interview, Ian Hamilton discusses his book, In Search of J. D. Salinger, a biography about the reclusive writer. Hamilton and Don Swaim talk about Salinger's famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye and Salinger's other works.

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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.