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Audio Interviews with Mark Childress

Mark Childress, winner of the Thomas Wolfe Award, discusses his work as a journalist, whether or not it interferes with his novel-writing and his love for reading works by South American authors. In this 1984 interview, he also describes his first novel, World Made of Fire, and if he intended it to be a “Southern gothic” novel.

Listen to the Mark Childress interview with Don Swaim, 1984
(24 min. 14 sec.)

Mark Childress talks about his latest novel, Tender, which is based on the life and music of Elvis Presley. In this interview he tells us what is fact and what is fiction in the story, what kind of music he enjoys listening to and how he approaches writing.

Listen to the Mark Childress interview with Don Swaim, 1990
(28 min. 44 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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