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since skulls are so much harder than fingernails.

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A typical early summer evening on Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, pop. 7,527 (2000 census), recorded June 22, 2008 at 6:50pm. And now this, recorded 30 minutes earlier, when Main Street was closed to traffic due to downed trees.

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Sunday, April 13 at 3pm West Houston Street

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Certainly I can't be the first person to have noticed this.

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I'm referring to the forms that ask you to list your ethnicity. I usually put "Other," just to push us one nanometer closer to a post-racial society. And now I read in The Rest Is Noise, by Alex Ross, a confusing description of the music scene in New York during the 1920s and 30s, when "Jewish, African-American, and even Caucasian composers were working shoulder to shoulder, trading ideas,

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The 60-Second Man Gets It Done in 50 Seconds. The Eli Interviews: March 14, 2008. Listen.

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(That's funny, I remember asking the same question during the last year of Clinton's second term.) I mean, I'd be in favor of letting Spitzer stay, if it weren't for the fact I've started a campaign to expand the list of deadly sins, with Hypocrisy taking the #1 spot. It is hard not to think of his Lt. Governor's legal blindness as some kind of metaphoric wish fulfillment. Update: I guess he

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Today, Episode 3: "Subway Mozart!" Heard at 10:41pm, February 29, 2008 on the downtown #1 train approaching 42nd St.

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going mano a mano (a mano) in the Guardian. Although they probably don't know it yet.

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and Wednesday, too, to the Leonard Lopate Show. I'll be hosting. Among the guests: Zadie Smith, George Saunders, Maira Kalman, David Ives. Listen 12-2pm ET in the New York area on 93.9FM or 820AM, and anywhere in the world at wnyc.org (where the show is also archived).

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Courtesy of the 60-Second Man. Heard 1/4/08 9:24pm PST at the Post Ranch Inn. Don't get the wrong idea. We only ate there. We stayed at Deetjen's down the road, a much more modestly priced collection of cabins, as they say, "in the Norwegian style." To be able to afford the Post Ranch Inn, it helps to be a threatened species. Like the red-legged frog.

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You give me 60 seconds, and I'll give you the world. I'm the 60-Second Man. Entry #1: How to Make the Perfect Latte. Happy New Year!

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Just when I was starting to get used to bylines in the New Yorker magazine (yes, I know, I'm a little slow on the uptake), along comes an unsigned article. Why? Perhaps it has something to do with the unsettling subject matter: the plain truth, first revealed by D.T. Max in the Times Magazine in 1988, that what we love about Raymond Carver is really what we love about the editing skills of Gordon

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The intro as submitted (title of piece, "Middle of the Road"): "Until science comes up with a definitive theory for why humans are drawn to music, writer Dean Olsher is sticking with his: because it induces time travel." And as it appeared this evening on All Things Considered (along with the piece itself): Listen.

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I wish to direct your attention to the new home of audio reporting done by the workshop I started at NYU's journalism department. It's The End of the Dial. Two pieces have been posted so far, each taking a different approach. In addition to the critiques that were raised by our first attempt, a third has come up: several people said they really don't want to have to look at anything. They want

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Thanks to John for weighing in on this week's experiment in sound reporting. Here are two other issues that have been raised by colleagues in NYU's journalism department: 1.) How do we create the expectation in the end user that this is not going to be a movie? One person thought, upon first playing the piece, that something had gone wrong: that, perhaps, only the titles had been rendered but

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I've been struggling to solve a problem regarding what's still being called, until a better name comes along, the Medium Formerly Known as Radio. The problem is: how do we meet the internet's demand for visuals in a way that is true to who we are? After all, working in sound is superior because it requires the listener to supply the pictures. If we wanted to do our audiences' seeing for them,

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the REST ... of the story.

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That piece I did about my battle with the beavers is airing on these stations at these times. My portion starts about 20 minutes into the fifth episode.

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Alice Quinn is leaving her part-time job of 20 years as the poetry editor of the New Yorker. Can it be a coincidence that her departure comes on the heels of the magazine's decision to publish this poem by Joni Mitchell?

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On Sunday, September 30, I'll be leading a free walking tour of 11th St. It's one of the Jane's Walks, put on by the Center for the Living City to honor the legacy of urbanist Jane Jacobs. Details here.

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May seem like an odd day to release a book, but linguist Steven Pinker spends the first chunk of The Stuff of Thought training his ear on the language surrounding September 11 and its aftermath. How many attacks were there on the World Trade Center, one or two? The answer matters in the billions of dollars. Then there's the question of Bush's notorious State of the Union address, and how much his

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Even if I could afford a vintage Jaguar convertible, I probably wouldn't buy one. Instead, I've decided to learn all the musical instruments that, for years, have beckoned from afar. As it happens, they all involve reeds, something that eluded me during my misspent teen years with a trumpet. I simply couldn't get a sound out of them. But something happened during my time at Yaddo last

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Long before enemy combatants, there have been all kinds of legally suspect ways to ruin innocent lives. I remember the morning Carl Kasell announced to the world that Richard Jewell had been named a "person of interest." I went to the office that day (I was working at NPR at the time) and asked the managing editor if it we, as a news organization, were really willing to go down that road. His

DOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740467284191994718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10453511.post-13880783179398538962007-08-28T14:52:00.000-04:002007-08-28T15:03:08.988-04:00

This will come as a bit of a surprise, but a week from today I begin a visiting professorship in NYU's journalism department. It's a one-year appointment. Friday was my last day on the air at Martha Radio. At NYU I'll create a concentration in radio journalism. From scratch. It's a pretty exciting thing. This coincides with an anniversary: 30 years on the air. I still have my third class

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