Clark Blaise speaks with four 1990 International Writing Program participants. First, Festus Iyayi discusses studying economics in the Soviet Union, working as a journalist in Nigeria and work at the University of Berlin. In 1977 Iyayi received a...
Véronique Tadjo describes the path that led her to the Négritude literary movement and her writing on the Rwandan genocide. Mathilde Clark tells the story of her search for a patron to fund her writing efforts. Partaw Naderi speaks about...
Jacinda Townsend reads from her short story 'Waterloo' about a young woman and her divorce from a writer and his pet parrot in Manhattan. H.S. Shivaprakash reads from his poetry, some in his native language. He reads using a variety of poetry...
The recording begins in the middle of Workshop student Faith Adiele's reading. The title of her story is therefore unknown. She is followed by Ogaga Ifowodo, who reads a selection of his poetry. Fiction writer Abubakar Gimba reads from his...
Christopher Merrill introduces Sandra Barkan who then introduces the African writers Helon Habila and Kofi Awoonor who are speaking as part of the Year of the Arts and Humanities celebrations. Habila reads a poem and then reads from his novel...
Nigerian writer, Kanchana Ugbabe discusses her Indian heritage and living in Nigeria. She states that she is most interested in the experiences of people living in cross-cultural homes. She reads an excerpt of a short story and explains the...
Includes notes of telephone conversations in Henry A. Wallace's office while he was Secretary of Commerce. Notes of occasional earlier telephone conversations while Wallace was in government service, 1933-1945, were not kept separate and may be...
Includes several manuscripts of several pages each, by Henry A. Wallace, in his handwriting, and with titles supplied by him. Documents by Henry A. Wallace and others include: "Abstract of Conversation with Mr. John Maynard Keynes," 1936,...