Podcasts

I discovered podcasts last year. Wow! What a joy. I have subscribed to about 25 different podcasts. They cover a wide range of topics: Reading, authors, sports, baseball, Yellowstone Park, my son's church in Denver, fiction, photography, NPR, StoryCorps, Story of the Day, American Life, etc. Some of them are video podcasts, but most are audio. Being a radio sports commentator myself, I really enjoy listening to the audio. There have been some that I have tried and not enjoyed. But, there are always new podcasts available.

Some of my favorites are:
Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac from NPR
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
Barnes and Noble's Meet the Writers
NPR's StoryCorps
NPR's Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me

Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me is a news show on Sunday's that is an enjoyable, humorous look at the week's news with interesting guests and fun little pieces of news.

A couple of the authors on the Barnes and Noble Meet the Writers' podcasts have been authors from our MLA conferences. There was a great interview with Greg Mortenson about his book: "Three Cups of Tea..." One of my wife's reading discussion groups was discussing that book the week after I listened to the podcast, so I put it on CD so that the whole group could listen to the interview. It also introduced most of them to what a podcast was. Podcast is a new term to many.

The other author interviewed from our conferences was last year's fun speaker, Nancy Pearl. I really enjoyed that interview also.