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Writer Randall Kenan.

Novelist Randall Kenan. He was raised in the rural, North Carolina, a part of the country in which he says "it's hard to distinguish between the myths and reality." His new book, "Let the Dead Bury Their Dead," is a collection of stories, about a five-year old who can hear the dead speak, an Asian man who falls from the sky and encounters mindless violence and racism, and a conventional widow who copes with the revelation that her grandson is a homosexual, and others. Kenan has also written a novel, "A Visitation of Spirits." (His latest book is published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, June 1, 1992: Interview with Glenda Lockwood; Interview with Randall Kenan; Review of the Beastie Boys' album "Check Your Head."
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Glenda Lockwood Discusses her Time as an Iraqi Prisoner.

Glenda Lockwood. She and her family were living in Kuwait when the Iraqis invaded in August 1990. Later the family was taken to Bagdad as "human shields" and Glenda's son, Stuart Lockwood, was seen on international television being coaxed by Saddam Hussein. It was a propaganda effort on Hussein's part that failed, and ended up infuriating viewers around the world. Glenda Lockwood's new book is " Dairy of a Human Shield." (by Bloomsbury, distributed by Trafalgar Square, North Pomfret, Vermont 05053).

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