One hundred and ten years ago, somebody was thinking about electronic publishing. On October 17, 1900, George Harvey, president of Harper and Brothers Publishing Company wrote to Samuel Clemons’ literary agent about the great man’s on again off again autobiography. Clemons, though he had barely begun on the project, refused to allow any publication of […]
Archive for the ‘WUWM NPR Lake Effect broadcasts’ Category
The electrickal method and Mark Twain
Friday, November 5th, 2010Marcel Proust and Le League Americain
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010(This essay was broadcast on WUWM’s Lake Effect program on May 7, 2010. Have a listen to it here.) It’s a little known fact that Marcel Proust—yes, that Marcel Proust—he of the monstrous early Modernist novel Remembrance of Things Past—one of those Mount Everest sort of books that some readers say they ought to tackle […]
The Real Housewives of 21st Century Fiction
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010(This essay was broadcast on WUWM’s Lake Effect program, 89.7, Milwaukee’s NPR affiliate on April 12, 2010. Listen to it here: ) Stories—you know, fiction, actual made-up stuff—are dead. I clicked off the last scene of Jersey Shore on my 52 inch flat-screen dual-quadrasonic surround-sound 5.1 plasma TV and began flipping through my Tivo’d shows […]
Snow Use
Sunday, March 7th, 2010(This essay was broadcast on WUWM’s Lake Effect program, Milwaukee’s NPR affiliate on March 12, 2010.) As I sat poolside, shivering in the pale cold sun, trying to make like I was really enjoying the 50 degree early March cold of southern Florida, having escaped at the last minute from grey Wisconsin on a crazy-cheap […]
