. . . . . . . . . "Since creating ???The Writer??? in Spring of 1997, Perez has produced forty-eight episodes, spotlighting such writers as Russell Banks, Frank McCourt, Jamaica Kincaid, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, David Sedaris, Ken Kesey, Studs Terkel, Chinua Achebe, Andrea Barrett, George Plimpton, and many others." . . . . . .