Tonight! Tune your radio dial to Theory Radio to hear author Scott O’Connor talk about his novella, Among Wolves, and explain what it’s like to wear tights in summer. That’s 7-9pm Pacific. Podcast will be here, later.

Tomorrow: the LA Times Festival of Books! Vermin on the Mount! Then Sunday, more LA Times Festival of Books! Woo hoo!

I’m scrambling to get everything together for tonight’s Theory Radio show – 7pm Pacific with Jonathan Ames – tune in earlier if you want to hear whatever music I queue up, because I think I’m getting an hour extra pre-show show time. Fun!

Coincidentally, today my first public radio piece goes on the air. It’s on Marketplace Money, which airs over the weekend on NPR stations across the country. One station somewhere broadcasts it Fridays, so it’s now conveniently up on the web. They’re calling it Math in the Real World; I called it Algebra, 25 Years Later. In it I try to answer the adolescent question, "Do we really have to know this stuff?"

Starting this Friday, Pinky’s Paperhaus will be heard on the internets (all of ‘em) Fridays from 7-9pm on Theory Radio. The inaugural show will be the complete interview with Jonathan Ames. It’s true, I’ve been holding the second half hostage….until now.

Listening should be easy with just a click on "listen now," which will launch the station in your iTunes. As for my end, well, the technology is a little more complicated, but I think I can manage it. I’m excited. Fun! Neat!

If you don’t listen to the radio show Marketplace on NPR you missed Pinky guest Steve Almond contrbuting his part to a story about consolidation in the chocolate industry. It’s partly cuz of his book Candyfreak, and partly cuz he’s got such a fantastic voice for radio. Listen to his Paperhaus appearance and hear him say "Doubleshot!" with the obnoxious vigor of a morning DJ on crank. In a good way.

Yours is not a question but a subtle reading and analysis of my novel. I cannot but agree.

Umberto Eco to Michael Silverblatt, August 25, 2005

Onetime Pinky guests Kevin Smokler  (Bookmark Now) and Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation will be radio-ing on PRI’s  Open Source radio program Thursday. They’ll be talking about this whole internet-n-books thing, which seems logical enough.

Very funny is the other guest: former LA Times book review editor Steve Wasserman.

I’m not sure how much Wasserman is tied into this whole internet thing, and I’m not sure who thought it would be a good idea to put him together with Mark Sarvas. Someone who hasn’t read Mark’s blog? But maybe this is what they do on Open Source, set up foes and watch the scraps of white suit fly.

The best way to listen is to stream from one of the sites of the stations that broadcast the show, like WGBH. It’s supposed to be on at 7pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern. You may want to download RealPlayer if you don’t have it. Public radio stations love RealPlayer.