In the runup to the 2016 election, I read a lot of older literature with intentionality. Orwell's 1984. Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale . ...

Alan Bershaw at home with his musical files. Alan Bershaw lives a very interesting life. He's a musical archivist, a finder of lost...

I've written fiction most of my adult life, though only a few have read what I've written. During my working years, the output was low. ...

I've loved the music of Scots singer-songwriter Karine Polwart for many years (which reminds me that I need to write her yet again,...

There are two things you don't mess with when confronting author Megan Collins, Taylor Swift and book pirating. Collins has a regular...

On Thursday January 13, I host an interview with music biographer Brian T. Atkinson who has written books about Townes Van Zandt, Roky...

I'll readily admit that I didn't fully get Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl middle finger to white America (and the President?). As it should...

Max Wareham in WESU studio B. There was a time when the world was lousy with banjo jokes (that, of course, was when the world felt like...

I've been interview people for my whole career, including thirty years as a filmmaker, and 40 years as a radio host. Some weeks you get...

Repressive regimes are often the catalyst for great protest music. Some of the very best "topical" songs live forever and,...

The first David Bowie album I bought was Hunky Dory. I'd heard Changes on WNEW out of New York City from my dorm room in Fairfield...