Radio Show, Podcast, State of Mind. Operating Since 2009
The first Books on the Radio interview is ready for broadcast.
This past weekend I interviewed Chris Hutchinson in his new home in Kelowna, BC. We discussed Kerouac, Coltrane and telepathy among many other things.
The interview is broadcast on CJSF 90.1FM at 1pm on Wednesday and I will podcast it here with an extended introduction on the day
When I asked questions like, “Well, if this is such an issue of deep concern among writers then why don’t I see comments, blog posts, full page colour ads in the Globe howling in protest? Why isn’t Beattie’s comment thread stretching into the hundreds – as I had expected that it would?”
The answer, every time, was: because they “can’t”; they’re afraid of pissing off their publishers, of blacklisting themselves from longlists, shortlists, laundrylists, every kind of list that you can imagine.