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Topic: Don Swaim


  
  Bierce on Terrorism
SWAIM: If the government's right, the terrorists were, and are, members of a fanatic Islamic group that interpreted the Koran literally.
The best that we can hope for through all the failures, the injustice, the disheartening damage to individual rights and interests, is a fairly good general result, enabling us to walk abroad among our fellows unafraid, to meet even the tribesmen from another valley without too imminent a peril of braining and evisceration.
SWAIM: Sir, for some ten hours after the disaster, some of us thought the current president of the United States, a man of modest intellect called George W. Bush, was a casualty -- because he spent that time safely hopping from airport to airport instead of taking charge.
www.donswaim.com /bierce-disaster.html   (1682 words)

  
 The Ambrose Bierce Site
Independently produced in Kansas City as a trilogy, the film includes a truncated version of Michigan filmmaker's Brian James Egan's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," which is integrated seamlessly into the Maxwell film[see below].
Based on actual events taking place in the summer of 1910, as Bierce engaged in a legendary drinking bout with Socialist Jack London at the Bohemian Club's summer camp on the Russian River, Sonoma County, California.
While the specific details of the debate are lost to history, Swaim attempts to reconstruct them using the actual words of Bierce and London.
www.donswaim.com   (1451 words)

  
 Bucks County Writers Workshop
To hear Don Swaim's unedited 1981 interview with Vonnegut go to Wired for Books.
Don Swaim interviewed Irving three times about the hoax and other issues.
For Don's short actual broadcasts with Michener (five two-minute features in mp3) go to James A. Michener.
www.donswaim.com /buckswriters.html   (1591 words)

  
 Louis L'Amour Interview with Don Swaim
He talks with Don Swaim in 1984 about his novel, The Walking Drum.
Listen to the Louis L'Amour interview with Don Swaim, 1984
For over a decade, many of the best writers of the English language found their way onto Don Swaim's daily two-minute CBS Radio show, Book Beat.
wiredforbooks.org /louislamour   (223 words)

  
  John Irving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arguments about Irving's merit tend to reflect the division between those who see literature's primary value as aesthetic and those who believe that for a work to be great it must influence culture writ large.
1985 and 1989 audio interviews of John Irving by Don Swaim
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Irving   (1083 words)

  
 Norman Mailer Interview with Don Swaim
Norman Mailer, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and author of An American Dream, Ancient Evenings, The Executioner's Song, The Naked and the Dead, and more talks with Don Swaim in 1991 about his most recent novel at the time of the interview, Harlot's Ghost, which is about the CIA during the Cold War.
During his travels there, he realized they were just a third-world country with no capacity to fight the United States.
Listen to the Norman Mailer interview with Don Swaim, 1991
wiredforbooks.org /normanmailer   (274 words)

  
 Bill Ballantine Interview with Don Swaim
Ballantine and Swaim also discuss the ins and outs of the circus world and more in this 1982 interview.
Listen to the Bill Ballantine interview with Don Swaim, 1982
For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York.
wiredforbooks.org /billballantine   (138 words)

  
 Author Interviews by Don Swaim
Don runs a definitive Web site on the myth and mind of Ambrose Bierce: The Ambrose Bierce Site, and is editor of an online magazine dedicated to the craft of creative writing: The Bucks County Writers Workshop.
Don Swaim has been a journalist, writer, and broadcaster his entire career.
Don Swaim is the author of The H.L. Mencken Murder Case, published by St. Martin's Press.
wiredforbooks.org /swaim   (1159 words)

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