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Poet and human rights activist Carolyn Forche reads from "The Colonel," her account of a harrowing experience during her May, 1978 stay in El Salvador.

Somalian writer Nuruddin Farah speaks at the October 20, 1992 International Writers Center conference, "The Writer in Politics: Under Politics With a Politics".

Argentinian novelist and journalist Luisa Valenzuela speaks at the October 20, 1992 International Writers Center conference, "The Writer in Politics: Under Politics With a Politics".

Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta speaks at the October 18, 1992 International Writers Center conference, "The Writer in Politics: Under Politics With a Politics".

Peruvian author (and former unsuccessful presidential candidate) Mario Vargas Llosa reads from his novel, "The War of the End of The World", in a keynote reading for the October 18, 1992 International Writers Center conference, "The Writer in…

Printout draft of "The Apocalypse Museum," an excerpt from Middle C, published in Conjunctions, No. 27, 2001.

Printout draft of "Dis.covery," later published as "In Defense of the Book," in Harper's Magazine, Australian Financial Review, Los Angeles Times, The Best American Essays of 2000, and as a chapbook, then collected in A Temple of Texts.

Cover letter from Gass for a printout copy of his collection of novellas, "A Master of Sweet Revenges," published later asCartesian Sonata, in which he explains the thematic elements to the stories. Also includes the cover page of the printout.

Photocopy of a printout draft of "Lust," faxed to and corrected by the publisher. This essay was first published in Wicked Pleasures: Meditations on the Seven 'Deadly' Sins, edited by Robert Solomon. New York, Rowan and Littlefield, 1999,…

Reading version of "Invisible Cities,"lecturegiven to Washington University's School of Architecture, March 26, 1984. First published in VIA (1986) and later included in Tests of Time (2002).