E. L. Doctorow reads John O’Hara’s short story Graven Image and discusses O’Hara with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Graven Image was published in The New Yorker in March, 1943, and is collected in the Modern Library Classics’s 'Selected Short Stories of John O’Hara.' Click here to listen... (New Yorker download)
“Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do
without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of
yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.”