This morning on NPR, I got to talk about the National Book Awards. The story details some of the changes to this year’s nomination process, but I was there to talk about the Awards’ history. I wrote about this a while ago for the New York Times Book Review. You can find that essay here.
Category: Media Appearances
No, seriously: Why do people run for president?
I was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday, talking about my op ed on why presidents run. You can listen here, and you can read the original piece here.
The best caller was an older gentleman from outside Indianapolis, which felt strange since I was doing my end of the interview from Indy’s WFYI. I’m in Indiana right now working on a profile of Mike Pence. Expect more in the future on why people run for governor!
The Bengals are on the radio
On Sunday’s Cincinnati Edition, I had a nice conversation with Mark Perzel about my feature on the Bengals, the county, and their ruinous stadium lease. You can listen to it here.
David Markson, Part III
Sunday night (Monday morning in Australia), I appeared on ABC’s The Book Show to talk about authors’ libraries with Anita Barraud. If you want to listen to the interview, click here. And if you’ve found this site through the ABC, check out my original story in the Boston Globe, my supplemental blog post on Markson and Melville, and an NPR segment on it.
Talking David Markson on NPR’s All Things Considered
[NPR]
On this weekend’s All Things Considered, I got a chance to talk with Guy Raz about David Markson and the surprising fate of many authors’ libraries. The segment was based on my story for the Boston Globe‘s “Ideas” section (see also this blog post), and NPR did a great job expanding on it — they even interviewed Annecy Liddell, the recent college grad who discovered one of Markson’s books and kick-started this whole crazy process.
One more thing: “connectable” is in fact a word. Not a common one — certainly not an elegant one — but a word nonetheless.
Craig Fehrman 