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Horton Foote on small towns
Carla Kaplan on “The Romantic Quest”
Alice Walker on rescuing Hurston from obscurity
Maureen Corrigan on the complexity of Jay Gatsby
Matthew Bruccoli on money and character
Matthew Bruccoli on Fitzgerald's and wealth
Maureen Corrigan on the Jazz Age
Ray Bradbury on the influence of A Christmas Carol
Sandra Day O'Connor on the influence of the book
O.S. Card on the power of storytelling
Charles Shields says Scout is based on the author
Sam Weller on Bradbury's cluttered office
Charles Shields on the near loss of Mockingbird
Carla Kaplan on the near loss of Hurston's papers
Alice Walker on Hurston's portrayal of black people
Alice Walker on giving voice to the black community
Ray Bradbury's bag of dimes
Jay Parini on Steinbeck's self-education
The influence of Grapes of Wrath on Ray Bradbury
Thom Steinbeck & Susan Shillinglaw on Steinbeck's intention
Thom Steinbeck on his father and books
Colin Powell on the immigrant experience
Ted Kooser on the landscape of the Great Plains
Willa Cather as an immigrant
Rudolfo Anaya on the spiritual journey
Rudolfo Anaya on the inspriration for Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya on the influence of oral tradition
Charles Carrillo on the tradition of the Owl
Margarite Olmos wishing "we all had an Ultima like that."
Alan Arkin On Singer Lonely Hunter
Blake Hazard on “Mick Experiencing Music”
Jim White on a “Symphony of ideas”
Alfred Molina reads “The Kiss”
P.J. O'Rourke on Wharton's hieroglyphic world”
P.J. O'Rourke on getting inside a character's mind”
Garrison Keilor reads from the novel
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