12/3/2008 How Do I Listen? Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download   Problems Listening? Try this Direct Listen Link if the "Listen to Show" button to the right does not work   Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 8/4/2004 CALL 1 800-423-TALK Robert Olen Butler Cover detail, "Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards" by Robert Olen Butler Email to friend View postcards from "Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards" by Robert Olen Butler The novelist Robert Olen Butler is a self-confessed eavesdropper with a passion for listening in on the conversations of the early 20th Century. He does it by collecting old postcards. Using the few lines scribbled on the back as his inspiration, he has created a cast of characters in a series of short stories that transports us to a time when the words we shared left a more permanent record. Related Shows Biography at the Crossroads The Connection (07/24/2002) Roger Shattuck The Connection (01/11/2000) The Other Frontier: The Story of 19th Century Whaling The Connection (07/20/2000) Why Do We Need Memoirs? World of Ideas (08/26/2001) Salman Rushdie The Connection (09/06/2001) "Bobos," the New Upper Class The Connection (05/02/2000) Related Links Inside Creative Writing: webcasts of the creation of an original story "Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards" by Robert Olen Butler on Amazon Robert Olen Butler, Pulitizer Prize-winning author. His new book is "Had a Good Time: Stories From American Postcards."

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