John Edgar Wideman Interview with Don Swaim

Audio Interview with John Edgar Wideman

John Edger Wideman, author of The Island, Brothers and Keepers, The Lynchers, Glance Away, The Cattle Killing and many more, interviews with Don Swaim. Wideman had initially gone to college to play basketball with dreams of attaining NBA status. His sports career, however, gave way to his newly developed taste for literature. He earned a Rhodes scholarship and studied in Europe, later returning to the states where he attended workshops as he fine-tuned his writing skills. Wideman and Swaim speak of all this and more in this 1989 interview.

Listen to the John Edgar Wideman interview with Don Swaim, 1989
(31 min. 25 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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