Tag: Nobel Prize
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goldings-Lord-of-the-Flies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/19/2000 William Golding Transcript Almost fifty years before “Survivor,” William Golding’s disturbing Lord of the Flies was published in 1954. It was much more reality-based and therefore much scarier than anything the networks might later fabricate for us. The novel was about what could […]
I. B. Singer
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/IB-Singer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/14/2000 I. B. Singer Transcript It’s the birthday this week of the late Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize winning author who, perhaps more than any other writer in this century, has kept the vivid idioms of Yiddish alive in this country through his […]