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.

Here's a sample of the offering:

Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Clive Barker, Carl Bernstein, Judy Blume, Ray Bradbury, William F. Buckley, William Burroughs, Tom Clancy, E.L. Doctorow, James Ellroy, Fred Friendly, Jean-louis Gassee, Allen Ginsberg, Sir Alec Guinness, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elia Kazan, Garrison Keillor, Tracy Kidder, Louis L'Amour, Elmore Leonard, James Michener, Robert Moses, Fred Rogers, Oliver Sacks, William Safire, Susan Sontag, Clifford Stoll, Kurt Vonnegut.