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Updike interview, Part 2

Description: Studio interview with John Updike about Eastern European writers. He recommends Yugoslav writer Danilo Kis, although it might be hard to find in bookstores. He also talks about a Polish writers including Bruno Schulz. He compares Polish poets and prose writer. He talks about the work of Milan Kundera. He describes Eastern Europeans writers' situation and their often surreal styles sometimes resulting in "magical realism."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989

V.S. Naipaul

Description: Christopher Lydon interviews author V.S. Naipaul.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1981

Vietnam Present Tense

Description: Reporter's journal on life in Vietnam 15 years after the US left. People bicycling in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Water buffalo. Elderly man practicing tai chi. Rice paddy. River in Mekong Delta with brown water and shabby boats. Destitute families sleeping in street in Saigon. Historical novelist Anthony Gray. Comment from Vietnamese man about new freedom of expression in press and government. Comments on the forgiving attitude toward Americans; they see the war as history and move forward without animosity. Faces of smiling children en masse. Amerasian children. Market with bins of beans and bananas. Da Nang Hospital exterior and primitive ward; doctor tells of dire lack of medical equipment and antibiotics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/19/1989

Visit to Warren home

Description: Visit with writer Martin Green to the Beacon Hill home of the controversial Warren family.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/31/1990

Warrilow reads Beckett

Description: Actor David Warrilow reads from works of Samuel Beckett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1989

Wilmington Town Crier

Description: Publisher Larz Neilson writes about Wilmington history in the Town Crier. His sons join him in the business and sustain the decades long tradition.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1991