Fun interview I did recently with Cathy Wurzer of Twin Cities Public Television.
Yes, I really have been reading Montaigne lately, but I should have mentioned Dr. Suess, too…
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Interview on Twin Cities Public Television: Almanac at the Capital
WPR Interview with Larry Meiller
WUWM Interview – Tiny Pilot
Mitch Teich talks to me about albums, airplanes, and accordions. OK, nothing about accordions…this time.
Tonight Show for Authors
I don’t recall if I ever posted this. Last spring during book tour in Seattle I was invited to sit down with Nancy Pearl, the librarian who has her own action figure. If you are an author, going on Nancy Pearl’s show (“Book Lust”) is like having an audience with the Pope, being on the Tonight Show, and meeting Elvis – all rolled into one. As of this typing, I haven’t seen the whole interview, but I did watch enough to come up with a question of my own: Did I even answer her first question?
It’s fun to joke, but long before I met Nancy Pearl, long before I sat down to do this interview, she made couple of mentions of my books on National Public Radio, and those mentions had a very direct effect on the continued life of those books. So I am grateful, and if you think I look like I’m sitting for this interview in the manner of an eager first grader on his best behavior as he recites his spelling words for Teacher, well, so it was.
Yesterday’s Radio Interview
Yesterday’s radio interview is here: available here as an MP3.
Computer needed some tuning over the weekend. For nearly fifteen years now, my friend Krister has grown used to my panicked calls (frequently from a distant Super 8 motel). He always has the answer. Krister had the foresight to set me up with a website way back in the – gasp! – 1990s. Been goin’ good ever since. He holds the keys to my universe, and he dang well knows it.
On the Radio Today
One morning in Madison, Wisconsin (after having a Teddywedgers pasty for breakfast) (ate it while sitting on the Capitol steps, no less) I sat down with Matt Rothschild of the The Progressive Radio Show for an interview that will be airing around the country today. List of participating stations here.
Long Beds on Radio Tonight
The Long Beds and I recently traveled to Deadwood, South Dakota, and played a show at the Civic Center. The show and an interview will be airing tonight on South Dakota Public Broadcasting from 9-11 p.m. CST and 8-10 p.m. Mountain Time. You can listen online if you go to the website and click on “Listen Live Now!”
If the song is included, be sure to listen for my special jazz chords on “Somewhere Out in Mudbrook.”
Thank you to the sound guy, the tech guy, and Matt Weesner for turning it all into digital electricity.
Mike on TTBOOK
I’ll be on the “Back to the Farm” segment of To The Best of Our Knowledge this weekend. Find out where/when to listen here. I believe you can also eventually listen online here.
Talking About Books
The interview I did with Faye Clow of “About Books” is now posted, you can listen here.
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