Warren Bower

Guest host and scholar Warren Bower recalls his interview with Yukio Mishima from September 16, 1965 and talks about Mishima's suicide in 1970. Bower also talks about the 1974 biography, The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima, by British journalist Henry Scott Stokes, and plays excerpts from his original radio interview with Mishima.

As a tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt on her birthday, host Warren Bower introduces a speech by Marian Anderson.

Naturalist and writer John Kieran discusses his landmark 1959 work, A Natural History of New York City, about wildlife in the city.

Ben Lucien Burman visits the show for a record tenth time to discuss his Catfish Bend series of animal fables for children and adults.

Gladys Brooks joins host Warren Bower to discuss her 1967 If Strangers Meet: A Memory, a reminiscence of the author's marriage to the writer Van Wyck Brooks, who passed away in 1963.

Poet and critic M. L. Rosenthal discusses the 1967 anthology The New Modern Poetry: British and American Poetry Since World War II, of which he is the editor, with host Warren Bower.

Military historian Ladislas Farago sits down to discuss his 1967 The Broken Seal: The Story of "Operation Magic" and the Pearl Harbor Disaster.

Novelist Mary Lee Settle, the author of the 1957 novel O Beulah Land discusses her tale of colonial Virginia with host Warren Bower.

Author, editor, and publisher Sol Stein describes the history and operations of his company Stein and Day Publishers—publishers of Elia Kazan's 1967 novel The Arrangement—with host Warren Bower.

Architecture critic and scholar Paul Heyer joins host Warren Bower to discuss Heyer's 1967 book Architects on Architecture: New Directions in Architecture.

Historian Rudi Blesh visits host Warren Bower to discuss Keaton, Blesh's 1966 biography of the silent film star, comedian, and filmmaker Buster Keaton.

Novelist Jessamyn West, the author of the 1945 collection of short stories The Friendly Persuasion, speaks with host Warren Bower about the Quaker lifestyle and religious practices that are the recurring subjects of her work .

John Hall Wheelock—born in New York City in 1886 and the author of fourteen poetry collections—sits down with host Warren Bower to discuss the eighty-year-old poet's 1966 collection Dear Men and Women.

Photographer David Douglas Duncan visits hose Warren Bower to discuss Duncan's 1967 memoir Yankee Nomad.

Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima discusses his thirteenth novel The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, first published in English in 1966.

A portrait of the unlikely friendship between T.E. Lawrence and George Bernard Shaw.

Poet and critic Louis Untermeyer talks about his close friend Robert Frost and the 1963 book, The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.

In honor of Edna St. Vincent Millay's birthday, Warren Bower discusses and plays recordings of songs with her poems set to music by Carl E. Gehring of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Songs are performed by Mary Louise Burdette, with accompaniment by Elaine Jacobson.

This episode features a recording of Robert Frost reading a lecture at New York University.

In honor of WNYC's Annual Music Festival, Warren Bower talks with Herbert Weinstock, author, editor and publisher regarding his new book about music