WSKG's bi-weekly interview & call-in program with local authors from Binghamton, Ithaca, Elmira and surrounding areas served by WSKG Public Radio. Off the Page is hosted by Bill Jaker.
Off the Page
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Way back in January, 2000 we convened a panel of science fiction mavens to share their forward-looking impressions on how futuristic and imaginative writing would fare now that the 21st century had actually come into view. Whatever other observations they might have propounded that afternoon, the...
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Among the many contributions of African-Americans to our national life, one seems almost incidental: the intense interest in genealogy. The appearance in 1976 of the book “Roots” by Ithaca native Alex Haley, its sequels, and the consequent television series gave everyone a keener...
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There are few characters whose reputations have entered the realm of myth and continue to attract insatiable interest. Was there ever really a Ulysses or a Robin Hood? People still show up in Dodge City, Kansas looking for facts about U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. Then there are real...
