01311nim a2200301 a 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160070014000330080041000470100017000880280037001050330009001420400027001510430012001780500010001900500013002000820013002131000030002262450051002562600054003073000042003613060011004035000054004145180087004685200368005556500059009237300027009825613203BD-DhUL20170423193127.0ssulunjlcnnnu890403s1980    dcunnn         l    eng    a   89740089 02aNT-811001bNational Public Radio  b3850  aDLCcDLCdDLCdBD-DhUL  an-us---10aPS37900aRYA 7755  a813bWIL1 aWilliams, William Carlos 14aThe Great American novel /h[sound recording].  aWashington, D.C. :bNational Public Radio,c1980.  a1 sound cassette (59 min.) :banalog.  a005900  aBroadcast Oct. 1, 1981, on National Public Radio.  aRecorded at a National town meeting held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.  aIn this panel discussion, novelists Francine du Plessix Gray and Larry McMurtry join with William McPherson of the Washington post to consider the present and future state of the novel in America. Topics include: what makes a novel great, the death of the novel, how authors are inspired to begin a novel, and other topics. Includes a question-and-answer session. 0aAmerican fictiony20th centuryxHistory and criticism.0 aNational town meeting.