Beat poet and interesting character Gregory Corso discusses Jack Kerouac.
Beat poet and interesting character Gregory Corso discusses Jack Kerouac.
The introduction is slow, so feel free to skip straight to the good stuff: Iris talking. She’s fascinating.
This video is really short, as it’s a clip of Auden reading the final stanza, but he packs a lot in :27 seconds. Enjoy!
Truman Capote (and Groucho Marx!) on The Dick Cavett Show, May 25, 1971.
This animation is a bit, shall we say, weird. I like it, but then no one has ever called me normal. I’m including it here because it features audio of John Masefield reading his poem, The West Wind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald reading from Othello.
Sylvia Plath reading The Applicant.
Gwendolyn Brooks reading A Song in the Front Yard.
Sylvia Beach owned the legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company.
Tennessee Williams Interview with Bill Boggs.