Hear me on The California Report
This week I reviewed the book In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder for the weekly magazine of the California Report. The show is broadcast by public radio stations…
Category Archives: radio
Oh noes! The bright spot on the LA radio dial just went dark.
Was it just this morning that I was listening to Indie 103.1 on the radio in the car while driving to work? I could have sworn it was. I heard…
NPR’s bookish weekend
In the New York Times Book Review this weekend, Julia Reed found Annie Dillard’s latest, The Maytrees, somewhat inaccessible. There are no mere ragamuffins in Dillard, only a “tatterdemalion”; the…
Reason 101.1 to love The Wire
OK, I’m playing catchup here. Season 2, episode 1. Brodie is the passenger in a van going down a highway, listening to rap; he’s never been outside of Baltimore. The…
Listen up, it’s Mr. Powers
If you’re lucky like me, you heard Richard (The Echo Maker) Powers on Fresh Air while caught in traffic today. And if you weren’t that kind of lucky, click on…
David Foster Wallace + Scott Simon = just plain odd
If you missed the NPR segment this morning with Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace talking to Scott "Mr. Poignant" Simon about tennis star Roger Federer, do check it out…
Pinky on NPR this weekend
What do you do when your purse gets stolen? You pitch a story to a radio show. That’s what I did, anyway. It’ll be on Marketplace Money this weekend: it’s…
Radio days
On Wednesday the NPR show Day to Day broadcast a piece by the most excellent Jim Ruland, on how a flash on the TV screen — well, the TV screen…
Oops, that’s not Pinky
So if you’re listening to Theory Radio right now, that’s not me. We have to do a digital handoff and the DJ before me is having too much fun to…
Theory radio tonight
Tonight’s Theory Radio show will be all music, no books or author. The lack of author smartness is sad, but will be made up for, I hope, with excellent new…
