LEADER 00000npcaa2200000 u 4500001 9988814563506421 008 241220i19741990xx eng d 035 (PULFA)C1372 035 (OCoLC)on1409381163 040 NjP |beng |edacs |cNjP 041 eng 046 i |c1974 |e1990 099 C1372 100 1 Ruas, Charles, |ecreator |0RUASCHARLES25761330. |4cre |0https://viaf.org/viaf/25761330 245 10 Charles Ruas Papers, |f1860-2022 |g1974-1990 300 25 |fboxes 300 21 |flinear feet 300 9.8 |fGB 300 293 |fdigital files 520 3 Charles Ruas is an American author, interviewer, editor, literary and art critic, and French translator, who served as the Director of the Drama and Literature Department for New York's Pacifica radio station WBAI-FM in the late 1970s and interviewed writers for radio broadcast and print, including Toni Morrison, Michel Foucault, Carlos Fuentes, Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol, Mario Vargas Llosa, and others. Included are photographs and documents on Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, the St. Marks poetry project, and avant-garde artists and performers. The papers include transcripts and audiocassette tapes of Ruas's interviews with authors and artists, as well as typescripts and galleys of work by writers Ruas edited, including Marguerite Young, and some related photographs, notes, recordings, and correspondence. There are also some translations and other writings by Charles Ruas, as well as a collection of family photographs and papers documenting the history of his family in Tianjin, China, from the 1860s through the mid-20th century. 520 2 The papers consist of materials related to Charles Ruas's work as a literary editor and interviewer, including transcripts, audiocassette tapes, and CD-ROMs of Ruas's interviews with writers and artists, typescripts and galleys of work by writers Ruas edited, manuscript materials he collected, as well as photographs, correspondence, recordings, and publicity materials that he kept regarding many of the authors with whom he worked. Interview transcripts and recordings contain Ruas's author interviews, which he conducted for WBAI-FM, WPS1 Art Radio, The Paris Review, and Conversations with American Writers, a book of interviews he published in 1985. Writers represented in the interviews include Toni Morrison, Carlos Fuentes, Michel Foucault, Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol, Mario Vargas Llosa, Norman Mailer, E. L. Doctorow, Tennessee Williams, Marguerite Young, James Laughlin, and others. While interviews primarily cover specific works by authors and the writing process, some tapes also document readings of work by writers and other live performances. The papers also include typescript drafts and galleys of books by writers whose work Ruas edited, including his own editorial drafts, as well as copies and manuscript materials that were gifted to him by authors, including Susan Howe, his co-host for poetry programming at WBAI-FM, and Marguerite Young, whose epic biography Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs Ruas edited. Drafts and galleys of work by Helen Adam, Susan Sontag, and Djuna Barnes are also present, along with a group of dust jacket proofs. Also included are some correspondence, interview questions, photographs, and promotional materials from various writers Ruas interviewed or whose work he edited or reviewed. A significant group of photographs of authors and artists was added to the collection beginning in 2016, including promotional photographs and portraits collected by Ruas, as well as shots from the WBAI recording studio. Some contact sheets and negatives are also present. There are also some translations and other writings by Charles Ruas, including his translation of Death and the Labyrinth by Michel Foucault Later additions comprise a collection of family papers and photographs documenting the history of Tianjin, China, from the 1890s through the mid-20th century. . 506 The collection is open for research. 650 0 Authors and publishers |xNew York (N.Y.) |y20th century |xInterviews. 650 0 Authors, American |y20th century |xInterviews. 650 0 Editors - New York (N.Y.). |y20th century 650 0 Experimental radio programs |y20th century |vSources. 650 0 Novelists, American |y20th century |xInterviews. 650 0 Radio personalities |y20th century |vCorrespondence. 650 0 Shipbuilding |zChina |xHistory |y20th century |vSources. 651 0 China |xHistory |yQing dynasty, 1644-1912 |vSources 651 0 New York (N.Y.) |xIntellectual life |y20th century. 651 0 Tianjin (China) |xHistory |y20th century |vSources. 610 20 WBAI Radio (New York, N.Y.) |0WBAIRADIONEWYORKNY158416930 600 14 Howe, Susan |0HOWESUSAN97914539. 600 10 Morrison, Toni |1https://viaf.org/viaf/109406177. |0https://viaf.org/viaf/109406177 600 17 Nin, Anaïs. |0NINANAÏS. |2local 600 14 Young, Marguerite |0YOUNGMARGUERITE79126873. 600 37 Ruas family |0RUASFAMILY. |2local 655 7 Audiocassettes. |y20th century |2aat 655 7 Interviews. |y20th century |2aat 655 0 Photographs |y20th century. 655 7 Proofs (printed matter). |y20th century |2aat 655 7 Transcripts. |y20th century |2aat 856 42 |zSearch and Request |uhttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hd76s1869 |yPrinceton University Library Finding Aids 914 (OCoLC)on1409381163 |bOCoLC |creplace |d20231122 |eprocessed |f1409381163 982 |cscarcpxm