A Conversation With Ring Lardner, Jr, Frances Chaney, Studs Terkel, John Henry Faulk. Revisiting the 50\u27s: The Blacklist in America

On the evening of February 20, Columbia College sponsored a special dialogue, Revisting the 50\u27s: The Blacklist in America, in association with the American Issues Forum. The discussion was moderated by Anthony Loeb, chair of the Film Department. Photographer: Randy Donofrio. 21 pages.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/conversations/1001/thumbnail.jp

Reading: Ring Lardner, Jr.

In this audiovisual recording from March 21, 1978 as part of the 9th annual UND Writing Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Ring Lardner, Jr. delivers a lecture about his life during the Great Depression, his experience during the McCarthy era, how he and his colleagues adapted to being blacklisted, and his career after the blacklisting. Lardner also reads from dossiers about he and his colleagues from that period and a sample confession he wrote

Panel: Literature and Society

This audiovisual recording from March 21, 1978 as part of the 9th annual UND Writing Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp” features Eudora Welty, Tillie Olsen, and Ring Lardner, Jr. forming the panel “Literature and Society.” The panelists discuss the role of reading in society, conflict between artists and the state, the red scare, literature in education, media and television, stereotypes in television, the social message of literature, and positive and negative forms of literary criticism. Moderated by Joanna McClay

Panel: Literature as a Mirror

This audiovisual recording from March 20, 1978 as part of the 9th annual UND Writing Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp” features Eudora Welty, Tillie Olsen, and Ring Lardner, Jr. forming the panel “Literature as a Mirror.” The panelists discuss fiction as a reflection of experience, how they came to understand writing, the medium of film as a storytelling device, the voice of the mother in literature, distortion of reality in literature, satire and parody, Lardner\u27s experience as a blacklisted Communist writer, sociological writing, Willa Cather, how the experiences of writers emerge in fiction, the importance of reading, and academic and non-academic education. Note: A portion of this panel wasn\u27t recorded. The recording also has intermittent breaks and repeated segments