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 online (audio available today at 1pm Eastern). It's an awkward mismatch for the ages.
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 called Stop, Thief!
Marketplace Money is broadcast on almost 200 NPR stations nationwide. To find out when my voice could be coming out of a car stereo near you, use this handy map. But don't wait to hear Kai say "Pinky" - listen for my real name, Carolyn Kellogg.
Want to hear the story right now? Well don't be shy: it's already online.
Sadly, the show cut the part when an Los Angeles police detective told me, "You'll never see your property again." Then he laughed, like this: "Heh heh." I kind of loved him for that.
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 of the show Lost, in particular -- did wonders for one book (The Third Policeman) and its publisher (the Dalkey Archive). (via TEV).
This weekend I've got a piece on Marketplace Money on carsharing. If you don't live where you can hear the show, it's on the internets -- audio and now full text -- too. Did you know that owning a new-ish car costs more than $800 per month? Neither did I (but I do now).
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 hand off. There's a chance that this will be straightened out, but my guess is that tonight there will be no Theory Radio. Enjoy the electronica (if it had been me, there was the new BellRays, Howe Gelb, Petra Haden, PJ Harvey and some Johnny Cash)
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 music from the BellRays and other audio delights. That's 7pm Pacific, streaming with one easy click.
Coming up: Michael Walker whose book, Laurel Canyon, looks at the canyon and the role it played in the lives of CSNY, Joni Mitchell, the Mamas and the Papas, Frank Zappa and more. And Aimee Bender -- not sure what she'll play, but she's planning her attack now.
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
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