Little Gray Book Lecture: How to Communicate Without the Use of Wires

Summary:

Lectures by Paul Tough and Starlee Kine, walkie-talkie banter and a song about NY ME host Soterios Johnson

Website:

http://www.littlegraybooks.com

Additional Credits and Funding:

With advice from Jay Allison and Chris Bannon and funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through the Open Studio Project. Recorded at Indre Studios, Philadelphia.

Tones:

Amusing, Authoritative, This American Life-esque

Language:

English

Description:

THE LITTLE GRAY BOOK LECTURES are a series of readings, songs, demonstrations, discussions, and occasional overhead projections that have been held near-monthly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn since 2001. They are now coming via the air to your wireless receiver.

Lecture #29, HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITHOUT THE AID OF WIRES, was recorded in Philadelphia with Starlee Kine, frequent contributor to PRI's "This American Life," and Paul Tough of <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>.

"...Hodgman sets the pseudo-reflective tone with his wry, hangdog demeanor (he has the vaguely besieged aura of an Ivy League professor uncertain of his tenure), while his guests -- editors and writers, cartoonists and actors -- find amusing ways to jump beyond the limits of the lectern."

-- Los Angeles Times

“Mondo pithy live entertainments! So funny, addictively fun, this brainy but cozy series features a consistently delightful lineup of doers, talkers, thinkers and/or auctioneers.”

-- Animated Motion Picture Star Sarah Vowell

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