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Transcript: Daniel Zwerdling Talks With Author of `My Dog Skip.'
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- March 23, 1996
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Daniel Zwerdling talks with Willie Morris, the author of "My Dog Skip,
" a memoir of growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in the 1940s,
with his remarkable dog Skip by his side.
DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: Author Willie Morris made his reputation
as editor of Harper's magazine back in the late 1960s. He helped
nurture what came to be called the `new journalism,' a highly personal
style of reporting that most magazines and newspapers take for granted
today. And he made his mark writing personal, probing books about
the glories and sufferings of the American South. Now, at the mellowing
age of 61, Willie Morris has finally written the first book ...
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