Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

...uncorny, human sized drama

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.