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Travel writer Jonathan Raban talks about journeys, both interior and global. Carol Shields discusses her surprising reading habits.

Year: 1991
Names: Raban, Jonathan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shields, Carol, Wachtel, Eleanor
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INTERVIEW: Travel writer Jonathan Raban discusses literary travel writing and his own work. READING: Raban reads from Hunting Mister Heartbreak: a discovery of America (1991, Harper Collins) at the Vancouver Writer's Festival. INTERVIEW: Carol Shields discusses her personal reading habits and American editor and novelist Peter De Vries.

Part of: Writers & Company
Type: Sound recording non-musical

On Ordinary Light - An interview with poet Tracy K. Smith

Year: 2016
Names: Smith, Tracy K., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
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Eleanor speaks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Tracy K. Smith about her memoir, Ordinary Light - named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times. Tracy K. talks to Eleanor about race, faith, and the elegiac power of poetry.

Part of: Writers & Company
Type: Sound recording non-musical