Wired for Books

Well, here's one of those mother lodes you stumble on every now and then online.

From the website:

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.

The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show.

Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety.

Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

My jaw dropped when I went to the page listing the authors whose interviews are there for the free listening.

Brian Aldiss, Anthony Burgess, Joan Didion, John Fowles, John Irving, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. — I could go on but I think you can see that there's an unbelievable wealth of listening pleasure here.

I count roughly 550 authors.