Host Charles Ruas is the author of Conversations with American Writers, a Fulbright scholar, and a distinguished French translator. He is also a frequent contributor to ARTNews and Art in America. His radio series' Historic Audio From the Archives of Charles Ruas and Conversations With Writers are treasures of our on-demand audio archive.
An unparalleled collection of recovered and restored programs from the seventies produced by Charles Ruas, and featuring Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anaïs Nin, William Boroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges, among numerous others.
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Allen Ginsberg reflects on sex, drugs, Communism, the Vietnam War, and his love of New York City. Audio recorded in 1968 at The New School.
Yvonne Rainer: Kristina Talking Pictures, host
Wyatt Cooper on Families: A Memoir and a Celebration , host
William S. Burroughs: The Making of Naked Lunch (1975), host
William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, In Search of Yage (1975), host
William Burroughs & Brion Gysin: Cut-Ups, host
Wang Ping, host
Walter Abish, host
Vestal McIntyre, host
V.R. Lang, A Memorial, Part 3: I Too Have Lived in Arcadia, host
V.R. Lang, A Memorial, Part 2, host
V.R. Lang, A Memorial, Part 1, host
Tom Shachtman, About Eric Hoffer, host
The Poetry Free Music Store (1975), host
The Naropa Institute: Art of Poetry, Part II, host
The Naropa Institute: Art of Poetry, Part I, host
The Making of Grey Gardens (1976), host
The Life, Death, and Works of Pablo Neruda , host
The Life and Work of Sylvia Plath , host
The Good Woman of Setzuan, host
The Female Angst, Part 2: Joan Didion & Dory Previn, host
The Female Angst, Part 1: Anaïs Nin, host
Tennessee Williams: Outcry (1975), host
Tennessee Williams, Memoirs, host
Susan Willis, host
Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars, host
Susan Howe & The Women's Distribution Group (1977), host
Ruas Historic Archives Project, host
Ron Padgett, host
Robin Robertson, host
Robert Wilson and Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach, Performed, host
Robert Wilson and Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1976), host
Rob Wynne & Barry Schwabsky on Marguerite Young (2012), host
Richard Foreman: Pandering to the Masses, Part 2, host
Richard Foreman: Pandering to the Masses, part 1, host
Richard Foreman (1975), host
Richard Adams, Shardik, host
Radio Lorca Marathon, June 4-5, curator
Patrick McGrath, host
Pascale Casanova, host
Pablo Neruda in New York (1966), host
Nova Convention: William S. Burroughs, host
Nova Convention, The Spoken Word, host
Nova Convention, The Music, host
Nova Convention 1978: The Third Mind, host
Nigel Nicolson, Letters of Virginia Woolf, host
Miss McIntosh, My Darling: The Rape Scene, Chapter 18, H.M. Koutoukas, host
Miss Macintosh, My Darling: The Reading Experiment, host
Miss Macintosh, My Darling: John Ford Noonan, Chapter 61: Mr. Spitzer Meets the Old Frog Musician, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapters 16 & 17, Tessa Saipan Kaner, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 82, part 2: The Stone Deaf Man, Betty Lou Holland, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 82, part 1: About the Storm that Destroys the Opium Paradise, thus Striking the Opium Lady with Sudden Old Age, Daisy Alden , host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 81, part 2: Esther Longtree and the Little Toy Salesman, Earle Hyman, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 81, part 1: The Little Toy Salesman Shepwrecked, Earle Hyman, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 80: About Esther Longtree, the Infanticide, Ruth Ford, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 79: The Woman Who Was My Father, Marian Seldes, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 65: About Mr. Bonebreaker the Bible Salesman, Owen Dodson, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 64: The Bald Childhood of Miss MacIntosh, Part 2, Osceola Archer , host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 64: The Bald Childhood of Miss MacIntosh, Part 1, Osceola Archer , host
Miss Macintosh, My Darling: Chapter 6, part 1, About the Young Bride Wishing She was the Other Girl Who Had the Whole Football Team, Dolores Brandon, host
Miss Macintosh, My Darling: Chapter 3, Alice Playten, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 29: The Butterflies, Which Poses the Question: Is the Transformation of the Chrysalis into a Butterfly Nature's Metaphor for the Survival of the Soul After Death?, Part 1, Michael Wager , host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 29: The Butterflies, Part 2, Michael Wager , host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 25, Leo Lerman, host
Miss Macintosh, My Darling: Chapter 2, The Opium Lady, Marian Seldes, host
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Chapter 1, host
Miss MacIntosh My Darling: Chapter 77, Esther Longtree and the Shadow Child, Madeleine Thornton Sherwood, host
Miss MacIntosh My Darling: Chapter 73, About Esther Longtree, Tessa Saipan Kaner , host
Miss MacIntosh My Darling: Chapter 70, About Mrs. Hogden, the Arithmetic Teacher, Anne Fremantle , host
Miss MacIntosh My Darling: Chapter 68, The Christian Hangman’s Confession, Michael Higgins, host
Miss MacIntosh My Darling: Chapter 66: The Arctic Explorer, Wyatt Cooper, host
Meredith Monk, Quarry, host
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Warrior Woman , host
Mary Dearborn and Karole P.B. Vail, host
Marguerite Young: Miss Macintosh, My Darling, host
Marguerite Young Interview (1976), host
Louise Bogan, What the Woman Lived, host
Louis and Allen Ginsberg, Father and Son, Part 2, host
Lily Tuck, host
Leonard Michaels, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, host
Leon Edel, The Art of Biography, host
Leon Edel, On Writing and Writers, host
Lawrence Osborne, host
Klaus Kertess, host
Karole Vail on Moholy-Nagy, host
Juris Jurjevics, Red Flags, host
Juris Jurjevics, host
Joseph Chaikin: Poetry Readings, Part 2, host
Joseph Chaikin: Poetry Readings, Part 1, host
Joseph Chaikin: Beckett, briefly, host
Joseph Chaikin, Outtakes, host
Jorge Luis Borges in New York, host
John Giorno, Dial-A-Poem #6 (1975), host
John Gardner (1975), host
John Cage + Morton Feldman: The Global Village , host
John Cage & Morton Feldman: Impersonality, host
Jessica Hagedorn, host
Jerzy Kosiński, on The Painted Bird, host
Jean Nathan on Dare Wright, host
Jean Claude van Itallie, A Fable, host
Janet Hobhouse, The Making of Gertrude Stein, host
James Laughlin (1975), host
Ishmael Reed: Flight to Canada, host
Interpreting Lorca, producer
Helen and Pat Adam, San Francisco's Burning, host
H.M. Koutoukas, The Butterfly Session, host
Ginsberg + Burroughs, Return to Columbia, host
George Michelsen Foy, Finding North, host
Federico García Lorca: Poet in New York, host
Fanny Howe, host
Emily Sunstein on Mary Wollstonecraft, host
Eleni Sikelianos, host
Elaine Steinbeck: A Man of the Soil, host
Eileen Myles, host
Edwidge Danticat, host
Ed Sanders: Tales of Beatnik Glory (1975), host
Ed Friedman, Chinoiserie, host
Ed Bowes, Sexless/Half A Family (1975), host
E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime (1975), host
Dr. Han Suyin: The Morning Deluge, host
Doron Weber, Immortal Bird, host
Donald Barthelme, The Collective Shrug, host
Donald Barthelme, Slightly Irregular Pseudonyms , host
Donald Barthelme, Playing with Petrol , host
Donald Barthelme, Jumping Around the Lion, host
David Shipler, host
David Shapiro and Harry Mathews: The Ironic List, host
David Evanier on Tony Bennett, host
Dave King, host
Craig Nova, The Geek, host
Conversations with Writers, host
Cineprobe: Jack Nicholson (1969), host
Christopher Mason, host
Charles Ives: Who Makes War?, host
Charles Ives: The Minority Logic, host
Charles Ives: The Hope for Expression, host
Celebrating Federico García Lorca, producer
Carson McCullers: The Lonely Hunter, host
Carlos Fuentes, Bilingual in Thought, host
Cage + Patchen: The City Wears a Slouch Hat , host
Bunny: Susan Howe on V.R. Lang, host
Buckminster Fuller, And It Came to Pass, Not to Stay, host
Buckminster Fuller on Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, host
Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection, host
Beckett Mabou Mines, Double Bill (1974), host
Barbara Goldsmith, host
Armand Schwerner: The Tablets, Part II, host
Armand Schwerner, The Tablets, Part I, host
Anne Waldman, Laura Flanders and Carol Brightman, host
Anne Waldman, host
Andy Warhol & Bob Colacello: The Lost Fashion Interview, host
Anaïs Nin: The Item of Three , host
Anaïs Nin, Without Reservations, host
Anaïs Nin with Judy Chicago: Vulnerabilities , host
Anaïs Nin and Marguerite Young (c. 1975), host
Allen Ginsberg, The Naropa Sessions: Triadic Line, host
Allen Ginsberg, The Naropa Sessions: The Figure Five, host
Allen Ginsberg, The Naropa Sessions: Subjective Babbling , host
Allen Ginsberg, The Naropa Sessions: Regarding Measurement, host
Allen Ginsberg, The Naropa Sessions: Nominal Tasks, host
Allen Ginsberg, The Naropa Sessions: Fresh Water , host
Allen Ginsberg, The Naropa Sessions: For America , host
Allen Ginsberg on Buddhism and The Beats, host
Allen Ginsberg at The New School, part 1, host
Allen and Louis Ginsberg, Father and Son, Part 1, host
Alex Haley, Roots (1976), host
A.S. Byatt, host
