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Forget what I said several years ago about liking country music . I finally persuaded E-girl to listen to it on the radio yesterday during a...

 Like everyone else my age, I read The Great Gatsby in high school and thought, at the time, that it was OK. It took many years, and much m...

Alternative music radio station WTMD-FM recently sponsored a pledge-drive, week-long marathon of The Top 500 Desert Island Songs of All Tim...

 AVSM Flashback is a new and occasional feature in which I'll reconnect with the people who once appeared in the pages of my publication...

When I was growing up, public radio was a lifeline to a world beyond the confines of my little town. When the NPR correspondents were in NYC...

• NPR's "On the Media" devoted a full hour to the future of books and publishing in its July 2nd show, Book It . (This is an u...

Since the "Lost" finale, I've been thinking about memorable TV show finales. Apparently I'm not alone. I googled "mem...

Dear Garrison Keillor, Please hire new writers for Prairie Home Companion and let them breathe new life into it. PHC is starting to feel lik...

I have a confession to make, and since I’m not Catholic, I might as well make it in the confession-booth-like confines of this blog posting....

On Fresh Air yesterday, Terry Gross interviewed James Franco, whom I remember as the good-looking stoner on Freaks and Geeks . Franco, it t...