The first short recording is an answer JDM gave to a question from a high school student. Date unknown but probably in the 70’s.
THE NEXT ONE INCLUDES ANSWER TO SOME QUESTIONS POSED BY ED HIRSHBERG ( WHO WAS WRITING A BIO OF JDM AT THE TIME—LATE 1970’S) . HE SENT THE QUESTIONS TO JDM WHO USED A CASSETTE RECORDER TO ANSWER. SOME OF THE ANSWERS WERE RECORDED WHEN JDM WAS IN MEXICO WHERE HE OFTEN WENT TO WRITE
Here are podcasts I have made in my series on JDM: Area of Suspicion ( AOS)
AOS # 1 about Area of Suspicion podcasts:
AOS # 2 Background of JDM
AOS # 3: JDM Quotations
AOS # 4: More quotations
AOS # 5: Travis's drink and history of Plymouth
AOS # 6: quotations and Meeting Travis
AOS # 7: JDM letters to editors
AOS# 8: letters to JDM and the Collection
AOS # 9
AOS#10:
AOS# 11:
AOS# 12:
AOS #13 : Piseco Lake and Ceylon
AOS# 14: CH. 10 INTERVIEW
AOS# 15: JDM OPINIONS
AOS# 16: LETTERS JDM WROTE
AOS#17: SHORT STORY : "MANHATTEN HORSE OPERA”
AOS# 18: JDM on writing and reading....
AOS#19: INTERVIEW WITH JDM: one of the very few he ever liked to have done
AOS# 20: JDM responding to questions posed by Ed Hirshberg as part of HIrshberg's biography of JDM
AOS#21: JDM on his first year of writing and on writing in general
AOS# 22: SONGS ABOUT TRAVIS MCGEE
AOS #23: 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AND BAHIA MAR PLAQUE
AOS#24: A potpourri of JDM-related stuff
AOS#25: CRAIG PITTMAN AND LEE CHILD ON JDM
AOS#26: ARTICLES FROM THE SARASOTA HERALD FOR THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF JDM. AUTHORS WROTE UNDER THE TITLE: :JOHN D AND ME." INCLUDED ARE LEE CHILD, STEPHEN KING, TIM DORSEY, AND DENNIS LEHANE
AOS#27: “Kith and Kin”: two current authors related to JDM
AOS#28: 1996 CONFERENCE AND JOHN PETER SCHMIDT ON JDM AS A MAN
AOS#29: NOV. 1990 JDM CONFERENCE; DOROTHY; AND COLETTE BANCROFT, BOOK EDITOR
AOS#30: FATAL ACCIDENT: SHORT STORY
AOS#31: ON TRAVIS AND WOMEN
AOS#32: JDM AND POE; LETTER FROM LITERARY AGENCY IN 1945; JDM SALES FIGURES 1946-50
AOS#33: LETTERS FROM ELMORE LEONARD. JDM'S FATHER, EUGENE; AND TO MICKEY SPILLANE
AOS # 34: WHAT JDM WANTED IN HIS NEW HOME ON SIESTA KEY
AOE#35: HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ARTICLE ON JDM
AOS#36: JDM ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD AND JDM AND ECOLOGY
AOS#37: INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS LUELOFF, ORIGINATOR OF THE FACEBOOK BUSTED FLUSH GROUP
AOS#38: BITS AND PIECES: card thanking JDM; JImmy Buffet Letter; English
assignment at Wharton; JDM grades at Utica High and at Harvard Business
School; and three articles from the Utica Observer Dispatch in 1946, 48,
and 49
AOS#39: ANDREW MACDONALD, GRANDSON OF JDM, INTERVIEW
AOS#40: LE TTERS TO JDM: ROSMOND, CHANDLER, BRADBURY; AND
LETTER TO ROCHESTER ARMY DEPT. FROM JDM'S FATHER, EUGENE--LIKELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR JDM ENTERING THE ARMY
AOS#41: LETTERS TO JDM: ROSMOND, CHANDLER, BRADBURY; AND LETTER TO ROCHESTER
ARMY DEPT. FROM JDM'S FATHER, EUGENE--LIKELY RESPONSIBLE FOR JDM
ENTERING THE ARMY
AOS#42: THE VERY FIRST SHORT STORY BY JDM: INTERLUDE IN INDIA:
AOS#43: THE POETRY OF JOHN D. MACDONALD #1
AOS#44: JDM POETRY: PART 2
AOD#45: READING FOR SURVIVAL
AOS#46: DM ON BUREACRACY AND GOVERNMENT, FRIENDSHIP, GUILT, HEAT,
AOS#47: JDM ON HOTELS AND MOTELS
AOS#48: JDM ON LOVE, LONELINESS, AND MARRIAGE
AOS#49: JDM ON MARRIAGE, MEDICAL MATTERS, AND MEN
AOS#50: INTERVIEW WITH STEVE SCOTT: "TRAP OF SOLID GOLD" BLOG
AOS#51: Karen Turville and JDM Island and Hall of Fame
AOS#52: LETTERS TO AND FROM JDM
AOS#53: JDM ON WRITING FROM DEC.1962 WRITER'S DIGEST
AOS#54: MORE LETTERS TO AND FROM JDM
AOS#55: On JDM from Walter Shine's unpublished Wizard of Words in His Own Words.
AOS# 57: On JDM from Walter Shine's unpublished Wizard of Words in His Own Words.