Looking for something else, I stumbled over WIRED FOR BOOKS -- a remarkable archive of writer audio interviews and readings. I particularly enjoyed this 1991 interview with Art Spiegelman, conducted shortly after he finished the second half of MAUS. Since then, Artie has become such a professional raconteur/interview subject that it's endearing to hear him stumble around a bit here. It's pretty exciting and appropriate to see there's a chat with underground-comix godfather Harvey Kurtzman in the archive -- from 1985, so Harvey is still pretty incandescent when given the opportunity.
[Another comicsy one, if you must: Rick Obadiah of First Comics/Classics Illustrated.]
Other Don Swaim interviews of note in the archive:
William Kennedy
Elmore Leonard
Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Oliver Sacks
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Norman Mailer
Studs Terkel
James Jones
Jerzy Kosinski
Susan Sontag
Gore Vidal
Tobias Wolff
Walter Tevis and Jamie Tevis
Andrea Dworkin
Andrew Sarris
Douglas Adams
Martin Amis
Paul Auster
Clive Barker
Carl Bernstein
Judy Blume
Barbara Branden, Nathaniel Branden and Leonard Peikoff on Ayn Rand
Jimmy Breslin
Art Buchwald
Christopher Buckley and William F. Buckley
Anthony Burgess
William Burroughs
Jim Carroll
Raymond Carver
Robertson Davies
John Dean
Ariel Dorfman
Bret Easton Ellis
Bruce Jay Friedman
Fred Friendly
Charles Fecher on H. L. Mencken
Paul Fussell
Art Garfunkel
Don George on Duke Ellington
Brendan Gill on Frank Lloyd Wright
Sir Alec Guinness [this was probably the "something else" I was originally looking for]
Pete Hamill
Joseph Heller
Nat Hentoff
Michael Herr
Patricia Highsmith
S.E. Hinton
Robert Hughes
Clifford Irving
Erica Jong
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Alison Lurie
Rod McKuen
Richard Nixon
George Plimpton
Victor Navasky
Mr. Fred Rogers
Budd Schulberg
John Sayles
Michael Schnayerson on Irwin Shaw
Norman Sherry on Graham Greene
Gay Talese
Amy Tan
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Peter Viertel
Elie Wiesel
And Henny Youngman
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