The enigmatic, iconoclastic writer Marguerite Young (1908-95) and her friend Anaïs Nin with hosts Charles Ruas and Joan Schwartz in the WBAI New York radio studios in 1976. Together they profile the author and analyze one of Young's masterworks, the non-fiction utopian study, Angel In the Forest (1945). The story tells of her life in the late 30s living in a wildly mis-managed Socialist Utopian community with its eccentric inhabitants in New Harmony, Indiana. An extraordinary account of popular mysticism and spiritual trends in American history, largely forgotten or unexplored.

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."