Writer's AudioShop

	The Best of NPR: Writers on Writing Individual Interviews ISBN 1-57042-642-2 (1 cassette; 90 minutes; $12.95) Publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks ANNE LAMOTT, author of "bird by bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life," and speaker on the Writer's AudioShop title "Word by Word" compares writing to "singing on a boat in a terrible storm at sea." From his home in Montana, NORMAN MACLEAN, author of "A River Runs Through It", tells how writing helped resolve the identity crisis brought on by his retirement. JOAN DIDION explains how there are "no terrific stories . . . only terrific ways of writing them down." JOHN MCPHEE, distinguished nonfiction writer and New Yorker magazine correspondent, describes the method by which he perfects a piece of writing. WALTER MOSLEY, creator of the bestselling books with detective Easy Rawlins, explores whether he is a social critic or a mystery writer. Ireland's RODDY DOYLE, author of "The Commitments" and "Paddy Clarke Ha-Ha-Ha," suggests how fear and anxiety can be useful components in the process of writing. Award-winning poet and teacher SHARON OLDS discusses the importance of separating an artist's public and private lives. Octogenarian poet and woman of letters MAY SARTON, visited at her Maine home, offers a rare and illuminating portrait of a life in the arts. Proceeds support National Public Radio
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