NEA Literary Moments

	Horton Foote on small towns
	Carla Kaplan on “The Romantic Quest”
	Alice Walker on rescuing Hurston from obscurity
	Maureen Corrigan on the complexity of Jay Gatsby
	Matthew Bruccoli on money and character
	Matthew Bruccoli on Fitzgerald's and wealth
	Maureen Corrigan on the Jazz Age
	Ray Bradbury on the influence of A Christmas Carol
	Sandra Day O'Connor on the influence of the book
	O.S. Card on the power of storytelling
	Charles Shields says Scout is based on the author
	Sam Weller on Bradbury's cluttered office
	Charles Shields on the near loss of Mockingbird
	Carla Kaplan on the near loss of Hurston's papers
	Alice Walker on Hurston's portrayal of black people
	Alice Walker on giving voice to the black community
	Ray Bradbury's bag of dimes
	Jay Parini on Steinbeck's self-education
	The influence of Grapes of Wrath on Ray Bradbury
	Thom Steinbeck & Susan Shillinglaw on Steinbeck's intention
	Thom Steinbeck on his father and books
	Colin Powell on the immigrant experience
	Ted Kooser on the landscape of the Great Plains
	Willa Cather as an immigrant
	Rudolfo Anaya on the spiritual journey
	Rudolfo Anaya on the inspriration for Ultima
	Rudolfo Anaya on the influence of oral tradition
	Charles Carrillo on the tradition of the Owl
	Margarite Olmos wishing "we all had an Ultima like that."
	Alan Arkin On Singer Lonely Hunter
	Blake Hazard on “Mick Experiencing Music”
	Jim White on a “Symphony of ideas”
	Alfred Molina reads “The Kiss”
	P.J. O'Rourke on Wharton's hieroglyphic world”
	P.J. O'Rourke on getting inside a character's mind”
	Garrison Keilor reads from the novel


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