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"We'll settle the argument with a free democratic referendum ... and in the event of a tie, I cast the deciding vote."

Year: 1977

Names: Norris, Len

Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection

Type: Still Image

Australian author Clive James on Cultural Amnesia

Year: 2008

Names: James, Clive, 1939-2019, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor

Description:

Get a "crash-course in civilization" this week on Writers & Company. Eleanor Wachtel talks with the versatile and witty Clive James - critic, novelist, essayist, memoirist, poet and TV host. As the New Yorker put it, "Clive James is a brilliant bunch of guys."

Part of: Writers & Company

Type: Sound recording non-musical

ʻAlāʼ Al-Aswānī on his new novel The Yacoubian Building

Year: 2008

Names: Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, 1957-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor

Description:

For once, a dust jacket didn't lie: ʻAlāʼ Al-Aswānī's novel The Yacoubian Building is indeed a best-seller in the Arab world and certainly has stirred up plenty of controversy. Probably the most popular novelist in the Arab world, Al-Aswany joins Eleanor Wachtel this week on Writers & Company to talk about his novel, which "reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today."

Part of: Writers & Company

Type: Sound recording non-musical