Summer Sounds: Panting

Andrei Codrescu — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:31:00 +0000

Commentator Andrei Codrescu adds to our arsenal of Summer Sounds with an essay about the panting of his two dogs. They have very different personalities, but share the panting gene.

A Not-So-Enjoyable Biography

Andrei Codrescu — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Transcript

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

Commentator Andrei Codrescu has been reading some biographies this summer and he is not happy.

Mr. ANDREI CODRESCU (Author, "Whatever Gets You through the Night"): I picked up a biography of Kay Boyle by Joan Mellen. I met Kay in San Francisco in the '70s, a formidable grand dame with her regal presence and a radical temperament.

Part of the gang of American expatriates in Paris in the 1920s that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, she'd written novels, stories and journalism and done two stints in jail for civil disobedience.