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Wired for Books -- updated 05 Apr 2020 -- CLOSED

In June 2016, due to changes in staffing and resources for the management of wiredforbooks.org, the Don Swaim files were provided to Alden Library at Ohio University (where the original master tapes are held) - and the website went dark. The URL has been picked up by another organization.

Here's another source for several dramatized audio productions of classic literature and hundreds of author interviews. The audiobooks are unabridged full cast audio performances. The Kids' Corner features selected stories from the Brothers Grimm, O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, and Beatrix Potter.

Wired for Books is an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The website features author interviews, dramatic audio productions of classic literature, readings of poetry, short stories, lectures, essays, and children's literature.

Nearly 700 uncut audio author interviews conducted by Don Swaim for his "Book Beat" show on CBS Radio are available at Wired for Books in their entirety. Original unabridged audio productions of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, and The Tragedy of Macbeth can be found at Wired for Books in streaming media. Poets, essayists, and fiction writers read their works, often with commentary. Kids' Corner, the children's section of Wired for Books, features the stories of Beatrix Potter and other classic stories for children.

Free Dramatized Audiobooks (20+ titles) --> details

• A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll
• Macbeth -- William Shakespeare
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz -- L Frank Baum

Author Interviews by Don Swaim

For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Visit the Wired for Books Don Swaim Page.

Selected Interviews (~700 interviews)

• Isaac Asimov --> Oct 1987 (25 min)
• Ray Bradbury --> May 1992 (47 min)

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