Charles Ruas with Klaus Kertess who has been a major influence on the NY art scene in his capacity as a dealer, curator and critic making him an astute commentator on the subject. His writings on artists are in a collection called See, Written.

Shachtman discusses his 2011 work, The Life And Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, the iconoclast famed in his day as the Longshoreman philosopher who defined the term "True Believer" analyzing the similarities between the extreme right and the extreme left.

Poet Eileen Myles reads passages from and discusses her autobiographical novel, Inferno, a vivid and brilliant recreation of the gritty days in the Greenwich Village of the sixties, and the tempering through fire to forge her identity as a poet.

A rare recording of the Andre Serban production of Bertolt Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan performed at La MaMa in 1976 with a score by Elizabeth Swados. Recovered from the original WBAI tapes by the Pacifica Archives and touched up by ARTonAIR.org.

Leon Edel on the discipline of writing and how he got started, his work as a journalist, a soldier and a professional biographer and discusses the writers he has known from Edith Wharton and James Joyce to Edmund Wilson and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.