Writers on Writing
Mark Danner; Journalist and Staff Writer
a the New Yorker: "Being
a Writer," 3/3/99; and "Ideas
and Leadership in U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/3/99
video(3/3/99)
Tom Engelhardt; Editor and Writer:
"Taking Back the Word,"
4/23/04
video
John Kenneth Galbraith; Paul M. Warburg Professor
Emeritus of Economics, Harvard University: "Intellectual
Journey: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom," 3/27/86
video
Philip Gourevitch; staff writer at the New
Yorker: "Reporting
the Story of a Genocide," 2/11/00
video
Christopher Hitchens; author of Letters
to a Young Contrarian and Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in
the Public Sphere: "A
Dissenting Voice," 4/25/02
video
Eva Hoffman; Author: "Between
Memory and History: A Writer's Voice," 10/5/00
video
Haynes
Johnson; Journalist and writer: "McCarthyism,"
10/28/05
video
Lewis H.
Lapham; Editor of Harper's Magazine, 1976-2006: "An
Editor's Odyssey," 10/7/06
video
Maire MacEntee; Irish poet and scholar: "An
Irish Voice of Poetry," 4/4/00
video
Kenzaburo Oe; 1994 Nobel Laureate in Literature:
"Art and Healing," 4/16/99
video
Michael B. Oren; Historian and Writer; Senior
Fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem: "War
in History and in Fiction," 11/8/05
video
Annabel
Patterson; Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University: "The
Power of Words and the Power over Words," 04/10/08
video (2008)
Norman Podhoretz; writer and former Editor in Chief
of Commentary: "The
Battle over Ideas," 4/6/99
video
Donald Richie; writer and film critic: "Writing,
Film, and Japan: An Expatriate's View," 9/21/01
Wole Soyinka; 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature: "Writing,
Theater Arts, and Political Activism," 4/16/98
video
Mark Steyn; Journalist: "America,
Europe, and the Islamic World, " 3/14/07
video
Shashi Tharoor; writer and Director of Communications
and Special Projects for the Secretary-General of the UN: "The
Art of Writing; The Work of Diplomacy," 2/8/99
video
Lawrence
Wright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "Al
Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," 11/13/06
video
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