This episode of "Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas" was first broadcast on WGXC on Jan 07, 2017.

"Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas" aired on WGXC from November 2015 to June 2017.

The award-winning author of Wetware (now a movie directed by Jay Craven) in a 1975 interview with Charles Ruas discussing and reading from his second novel, The Geek. The writer calls for an end to traditional, psychologically driven fiction and seeks to create a new kind of myth. The novel follows a man who entertains people at his own expense and examines the idea of identifying with a character who is subjected to constant degradation. Craig Nova (b. 1945) is the author of 14 novels and one autobiography. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Men's Journal, among others. His short story, "The Prince," won an O.Henry Award. Illustration by Brad Holland.

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Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "A unparalleled collection of recovered and restored programs from the seventies produced by Charles Ruas for WBAI-FM, New York's Pacifica station. It features reading, lectures, and performances by such cultural and literary icons as Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anaïs Nin, William Boroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges, among numerous others.

Ruas is the author of Conversations with American Writers, a Fulbright scholar, and a distinguished French translator. He is also a contributor to ARTNews and Art in America. This series is produced in partnership with Charles Ruas, The Pacifica Radio Archives, The Yale Beinecke Library, The Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Collection, and numerous restorers, archivists and collectors."

Tune in for selections from the WGXC archives featuring past broadcasts of programs that consisted of community talk, produced interviews, music, and/or radio art that were broadcast on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM.