Philip Quarles

"What is a nature writer?" Joseph Wood Krutch asks the audience at this 1952 Book and Authors Luncheon. 

Marianne Craig Moore, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ivan Meštrović and Elizabeth Bowen: a snapshot of the American cultural establishment.

"Welcome to Fun City!" Mayor Lindsay jokes as he kicks off the ceremony.

Demystifying the art of music, he claims “we need today more bad musicians.”

Having had a unique career, alternating between the classical and modernist styles, he compares himself to Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Architect Ada Louise Huxtable considers this question on an episode of New York Tomorrow.

Featuring John Crowe Ransom, William H. McNeil, John Updike and I. I. Rabi. 

"There is no room for imagination in composing a factual background." Author Helen MacInnes plunges into the real-life inspiration for The Venetian Affair. 

Khrushchev is polite but noticeably blunt, pronouncing that "The conviction we found was the leaders of this city and especially its people do not want war."

Attorney William vanden Heuvel answers questions on the death of Young Lords' Julio Roldan, and the subsequent riot that eventually resulted in the closing of the infamous Tombs prison. 

A former Miss America is determined to "exorcize from this city the persistent cancer created by greed and advantage-seeking…" as Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs.

Bellow accepts for Herzog and Ted Roethke's widow accepts for her late husband's collection The Far Field.

Is Aesthetic Realism “a Village cult” or a powerful force bringing new dramatic interpretations to the stage?

Moss Hart discusses his memoir at this 1959 Book and Author Luncheon.

Though she is seventy-four years old, Helen Keller is about to embark on another journey, this one a staggering 40,000-mile tour of India, Pakistan, Burma, the Philippines and Japan.

Although she has only studied "cultures addicted to betel nut," America's most famous anthropologist voices her opinions at this 1970 symposium on the Social Implication of Drug Abuse. 

 Alben Barkley treats the Book and Author Luncheon as another whistle-stop. 

   America's first African-American ship master.

New York City Mayor Robert Wagner, Youth Board President Ralph Whalen and Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy answer questions sent in from WNYC listeners. 

Ramsey Clark and William F. Buckley debate on the benefit or harm of political dissent in a lawful society.