The Lit'ry Life: Wired for Books

Developed by the Ohio University Telecommunications Center and the Ohio Humanities Council, this site has high-quality audio recordings of authors reading their own works, video recordings of plays, and an archive of author interviews conducted in the 70s and 80s by Don Swaim on Book Beat, including readings of Beatrix Potter stories and a wonderful performance of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Karen Chan, and poetry and short story audio recordings by Andrew Dworkin, Robert Pinsky, Dave Smith, and Bonnie Proudfoot, among others. Interviews include Isaac Asimov, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, and Gunter Grass. <http://www.wiredforbooks.org/>