By popular request, tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CST on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and via free streaming anywhere in the world at wfmt.com I'll be repeating my May 2011 reading of a favorite short story by James Alan McPherson, "A Matter of Vocabulary" from his 1969 collection Hue and Cry.
A longtime faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at The University of Iowa, McPherson, born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1943, was in the first class of MacArthur Fellows in 1981, and received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his second book of stories, Elbow Room. He turned to writing full time after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1968 at age 24. I first met Jim when I was a boy in 1968 and he and his work have both meant a great deal to me on many levels since then. Alas, his masterpiece, "A Solo Song: For Doc," also included in Hue and Cry, can't be read on the radio due to some of the language.
The program will then be posted Tuesday at wfmt.com/criticalthinking for free podcast, download, streaming indefinitely.
See you on the radio!
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