What’s My Line?
![What's My Line? - Carl Sandburg; Milton Berle; Nick Adams [panel] (Sep 11, 1960)](https://www.pw.org/files/styles/video_thumb_medium/public/media-oembed/i.ytimg.com/vi/GkJ2-rP78TU/hqdefault.jpg?itok=CRKRwP_1)
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In 1960 Carl Sandburg, the poet, journalist, Lincoln biographer, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, appeared on CBS's “What’s My Line?” which ran from 1950 to 1967, the year Sandburg died.
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Philip K. Dick
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Nearly all of his forty-four published books were science fiction, but Philip K. Dick, who died in 1982, has influenced countless writers and filmmakers with sociological, political, and metaphysical themes that trenscend genre. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this fall, is the author's final work.
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Kenji Miyazawa
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The anime art film Spring & Chaos, directed by Shoji Kawamori and created exclusively for Japanese television, is based on the life of Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa, who died in 1933.
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Muriel Rukeyser
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“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Muriel Rukeyser asked in her poem “Käthe Kollwitz.” She answered: “The world would split open.” In this clip, Rukeyser, who died in 1980, reads the poem “In Our Time.”
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Rosanna Warren’s “Aftermath”
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The author of five poetry collections, including Ghost in a Red Hat, which was just published by W. W. Norton, Rosanna Warren reads “Aftermath,” one in a series of elegies she wrote the for poet Deborah Tall, who died of breast cancer in 2006. This reading took place on March 7, 2011 at Nyack College.
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Reynolds Price
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Fiction writer Reynolds Price, who died on January 20, 2011 at the age of seventy-seven, is the subject of a new documentary, Pass It On, which takes a look at the impact the late author had on his students at Duke University, where he taught writing and the poetry of Milton for more than fifty years.
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Spalding Gray
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The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin recently acquired the archives of Spalding Gray, the author, actor, and monologuist who died in 2004. Among the materials in the collection are notebooks and diaries Gray used while writing his performance pieces, including “Swimming to Cambodia,” the first few minutes of which is seen here.
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One Tough Mother
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A newly released two-DVD set, One Tough Mother, combines the films made of Charles Bukowski’s last two readings—in Vancouver in 1979 and in Redondo Beach, California, in 1980. The author of more than sixty books, Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9, 1994.
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Jim Carroll’s Last Book
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Poet and musician Jim Carroll was putting the finishing touches on a novel when he passed away on September 11, 2009. Next week Viking will publish that novel, The Petting Zoo. This is the music video of The Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died,” which appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 film version of his autobiography, The Basketball Diaries, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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