Gore Vidal talking about his memoir Point to Point Navigation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2929mxXgS0&feature=related
“Yeah, well, I’m, I’m not in the book, if you notice. I keep myself out of that.”
Eudora Welty discussing A Worn Path with Beth Henley (1994).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fh37fzsOg
An interview with George Plimpton, December 1998. He discusses his life and his biography of Truman Capote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOK5_I1LwU&feature=related
It’s a bit long but well worth a listen, even if you are not a George Plimpton fan.
Kurt Vonnegut interview from 1991.
“It’s the only art that requires skill on the part of the audience.”
This is a rare recorded interview of Leonard Woolf speaking about his wife, Virginia, and their friends and fellow artists in that loose, non-movement called the Bloomsbury Group. It is nearly ten minutes long but is well worth your time. It was recorded in May 1964, when Leonard was 83.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN4uhX4URr4&feature=relmfu
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