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Ernest Hemingway Reading His Own Works including The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Released in 1965 from Caedmon Records.

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874, in Pittsburgh - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France.

First half of a class by William S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing.

An Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Waldman reads "Fast Speaking Woman" and other poems. Ginsberg reads "Howl" in its entirety, and other poems.

Harold Pinter reading The Hot House and One for the Road in 1989 at 92Y.

Russell Banks, INCA's current president, is a prolific writer of fiction, whose titles include Searching for Survivors, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, and Cloudsplitter.

A noontime poetry reading series under the direction of Professor Robert Hass.

This is a lecture by author Alice Walker who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her novel The Color Purple. She has written dozens of novels, poetry collections, and nonfiction books and in this talk she reads from one of her latest works...

Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class discussing and reading from Russian Futurists.

In this archive lecture from Naropa University recorded in 1984, beat poets Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs discuss their views on writing.