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Index Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas
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Programs produced by Charles Ruas at WBAI-FM, New York, 1975.
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In Search of Yage: A Correspondence between William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg (1975) listen |
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Ginsberg talks about them (with host Charles Ruas) and Burroughs reads from them - the Yage Letters, an extraordinary correspondence from Mexico in which the seeds of Burroughs' seminal stories would grow. Originally broadcast on WBAI-FM in New York in 1975, for a series produced by Ruas. Ginsberg's commentary is must-hear listening for anyone interested in contemporary literature.
Breakfast with "Lunch," the focus of a 1975 program produced by Charles Ruas at WBAI-FM in New York. It contains matchless readings by author William S. Burroughs, plus a fascinating discussion led by Allen Ginsberg, and including publisher Maurice Girodias, James Grauerholz, and Carl Solomon discussing the publication of Burroughs' best-known novel, Naked Lunch.
Recorded at the time of this extraordinary novel's initial publication, E.L. Doctorow reads and speaks with WPS1's Charles Ruas. (Originally broadcast on WBAI-FM New York in 1975, when Ruas was that station's director of arts programming)
In this 1975 interview, originally broadcast on WBAI-FM, New York, playwright and director Richard Foreman gives detailed insight into his process with several illustrations from recorded performances at his Ontologic-Hysteric Theater.
October Light involves a crotchety old man who lives in Vermont with his sister and does what so many of us, from time to time, feel tempted to do: shoot his TV with a big gun. It won John Gardner the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. His other books include Grendel, a retelling of Beowolf, and On Becoming a Novelist. His complete works and papers are located in the rare books division in the library of the University of Rochester, New York.
James Laughlin founded New Directions in 1936 with anthologies of new poetry, prose and plays that later gave birth to one of America's finest independent publishers for new and experimental writing. His "stable" included Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Tennessee Williams, Franz Kafka, Christopher Isherwood, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and, at one point, F.Scott Fitzgerald and Franz Kafka. Hear the man tell the story of New Directions in his own words, in this historic 1975 conversation with Susan Howe and Charles Ruas.
Tennessee Williams reading "Outcry," a 1975 play for two characters. This show, on which Williams performs with Bill Lensch, was originally broadcast on WBAI-FM in New York during the play's initial run. It marked the first time this most major of American playwrights saw his work produced Off-Broadway. (Produced by Charles Ruas)
