This episode of "Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas" was first broadcast on WGXC on Feb 06, 2016.

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

A 1975 program produced by Charles Ruas at WBAI-FM in New York. It contains readings by author William S. Burroughs, a fascinating discussion led by Allen Ginsberg with Burroughs, courageous publisher Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press, James Grauerholz, and Carl Solomon discussing censorship and the battles to publish Naked Lunch, Lady Chatterly's Lover, works by Henry Miller, Genet, and much more. Background on the novel's birth and life with these characters is provided by the remarkable Felicity Mason (aka Anne Cumming), the professed "adoptive" sister of Brion Gysin.

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.