Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jennifer Egan 

Live Wire! Radio Episode 162 Encore

Series: Live Wire! Radio
From: Live Wire! Radio
Length: 00:59:00

Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones Read the full description.

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JENNIFER EGAN is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starting Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories and, most recently, the A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker,HarpersMcSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in theNew York Times Magazine

Show favorite, STEVE ALMOND, author of Candyfreak and Not That You Asked, brings his latest book of short stories God Bless America.

Danielle Sullivan and Thomas Himes formed WILD ONES in the fall of 2009. The Portland based synth-pop duo started with a handful of bedroom recordings but quickly evolved to include multi-instrumentalist Clayton Knapp, drummer Andy Parker, and bassist Nick Vicario. Knapp simultaneously functions as the band’s recording engineer and helped produce their debut EP “You’re a Winner”. The five piece is currently working on a full length record which is due in early 2012.

With your host COURTENAY HAMEISTER comedy by, The Faces For Radio and House band RALPH HUNTLEY and the MUTTONCHOPS. 


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Piece Description

JENNIFER EGAN is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starting Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories and, most recently, the A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker,HarpersMcSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in theNew York Times Magazine

Show favorite, STEVE ALMOND, author of Candyfreak and Not That You Asked, brings his latest book of short stories God Bless America.

Danielle Sullivan and Thomas Himes formed WILD ONES in the fall of 2009. The Portland based synth-pop duo started with a handful of bedroom recordings but quickly evolved to include multi-instrumentalist Clayton Knapp, drummer Andy Parker, and bassist Nick Vicario. Knapp simultaneously functions as the band’s recording engineer and helped produce their debut EP “You’re a Winner”. The five piece is currently working on a full length record which is due in early 2012.

With your host COURTENAY HAMEISTER comedy by, The Faces For Radio and House band RALPH HUNTLEY and the MUTTONCHOPS. 


Timing and Cues

TOTAL LENGTH 59:00

1st Segment
0:00 - 15:59
Incue: "And now, Live Wire presents 'Poorly Cast Audio Books'"
Outcue: "We'll be right back"

60 second break (music bed)
15:59 - 16:59

2nd Segment
16:59 - 46:02
Incue: "Welcome back to Live Wire
Outcue: "We'll be right back"

60 second break (music bed)
46:02 - 47:02

3rd Segment
47:02 - 59:00
Incue: "Welcome back to Live Wire"
Outcue: "Live Wire Radio DOT ORG"

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