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.

In an interview from the mid-70s, Emily Sunstein discusses A Different Face, her biography on Mary Wollstonecraft. Sunstein explains her subject's proto-feminism and life long battle for independence in mid 18th century Britain. Fascinating.

Sexless/Half A Family is constructed around Bowe's experiences while writing a Hollywood screenplay and includes voices of Mary Barnan, Elizabeth Canon, Vito Acconci, Joan Schwartz, others. Unheard for decades, our crew restored it.

From a series of broadcasts and vinyl releases from the mid-seventies, American poet and performance artist John Giorno muses with co-producers and interviewers Charles Ruas and Linda Perry over the pragmatic-yet-existential dilemmas faced by poets (

James Laughlin founded New Directions with anthologies of new poetry, prose and plays which produced one of America's finest independent publishers for new and experimental writing. Hear the man tell the story of New Directions in his own words.