Recording of Katherine Anne Porter and Paul Porter, College Park, MD, September 16 and17, 1972. [Slightly better copy than 025021.]

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Date
1972-09-16
Summary
Recording of Katherine Anne Porter and Paul Porter during meals in her College Park, MD, apartment on September 16 and 17, 1972. Topics of discussion include eating and cooking artichokes; Evelyn and Barrett Prettyman; Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach; women geniuses wasted because of their gender; women's movement; boys torturing a cat; David Heintze; bread KAP made; housekeeper she had in Santa Monica who had worked for a priest; works of Tom McHale and J. F. Powers; the Virgin Mary and Mariolotry; recalls what ate on grandmother's farm as a child; superstitions about food; food allergies; KAP recounts her experience of reactions to soft shell crabs; recalls father taking her to the races in New Orleans and recounts the story about Uncle Gabriel and Miss Lucy in "Old Mortality," which she characterizes as "reportage"; her Bohemian glasses; cooking and entertaining; the Nobel Prize for Literature; the man who straightened her out on sex; felines.
Contributor
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
Subject
Literature, Print Culture
Locations
North America; United States
Collection
Literature
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Terms of Use
Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the University of Maryland Libraries at http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/contact/home.
Physical Description
1:26:01 hh:mm:ss; audiocassette
Notes
Katherine Anne Porter papers
Accession 66-5
A guide to the full collection of Katherine Anne Porter papers is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1532.

Access

Access condition: public.
Other Identifiers
Fedora 2 PID: umd:684084; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/33219; Catalog Key: PP4.1.23.2; Filename: litmss-025058

Access Restrictions

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