Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 12, 1994: Interview with Tim O'Brien; Interview with Neal Gabler.

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INT. 1: Novelist TIM O'BRIEN has been called "one of our most eloquent writers about Vietnam" (Playboy). "In the Lake of the Woods" (Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence) is his new novel about a man whose involvement in the war is much like O'BRIEN's. The character was at the My Lai massacre, as was O'BRIEN, and they shared a need to be accepted which drove many of their actions in the war. INT. 2: Walter Winchell was the man who legitimized gossip columns, tabloid news, and celebrity watching. He rose from a poor New York family to become one of the most read columnists, and eventually consulted with F.D.R. and Joe McCarthy. Writer NEAL GABLER has written a biography about Winchell. "Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity" (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.) helps explain the man who was the source of our current celebrity-obsessed culture.