On the value of greatest hits albums. 

On Downtown to discuss what makes good writing good writing, what makes bad writing bad, how publishing and the MFA systems work, and E.M. Delafield and Shirley Jackson. "There is nothing easier to do than to stop reading something. And there is nothing harder to do than to write artfully. Negotiating those two extremes is what's going to make someone a great writer, or not."

On Downtown talking about Buster Keaton, an M.R. James mockumentary, Guns N' Roses live in 1992, hockey, baseball, and the 1949 film, The Window, a precursor to Hitchcock's Rear Window. 

Interviewed about a radio adaptation of Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a fine William Conrad performance, an early Rolling Stones' bootleg from a 1965 show, Led Zeppelin at the Boston Tea Party in January 1969, and Sam Cooke's "Good Times." 

Talking about James Stewart and Elmer Fudd, Little Eva and the Beatles, an Oasis radio session, the radio program, Night Beat, push-ups, the difference between envy and jealousy, and an adaptation of W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw." 

What we can learn from the Beatles as they closed out 1962 in Hamburg. 

A consideration and appreciation of the Pirates' great as the ultimate teammate. 

A feature on the Suspense episode, "The House in Cypress Canyon," which is also in And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art. 

An interview about Louis Armstrong, Orson Welles and Dickens, a radio adaptation of It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart and Donna Reed, a deluxe box set for the soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Beatles' 1965 fan club Christmas disc. 

A piece for Best Classic Bands on the identity-asserting importance of the Beatles' first single. 

Interviewed about Dean Martin, "Christmas Eve on a Haunted Wreck," Hans Christian Andersen, Agnes Moorehead, and a Christmas episode of Night Beat. 

Talking about season offerings from Rod Serling and Johnny Dollar, the Who take on "Jingle Bells," some lovely Christmas TV animation, and the 1970 children's book, The Sweet Smell of Christmas. 

All things pertaining to 1964's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 

Pulling a Peanuts for Charles Schulz's centennial. 

A Christmas report from war-torn WWII London, a Suspense Christmas episode with Peter Lorre, some holiday V-discs, O. Henry, and 1942's This Gun for Hire.  

A piece about the Jazz in Silhouette album. 

A piece on the first episode of the sitcom, which is also in You're Up, You're Down, You're Up: Essays on Art in Life and Life in Art. 

Shaker music, the hot start of the Boston Bruins, a Thanksgiving animated special from 1972, Gunsmoke, and the passing of Jules Bass. 

Interviewed about bullying, Newhart, A Certain Ratio's "Winter Hill," Frankenstein, a long lost episode of Gunsmoke, and Walter Johnson. 

Half hour of jazz talk about Billie Holiday, Freddie Hubbard, Cecil Taylor, Miles Davis, and Bud Powell. 

A feature about the 1962 film, Carnival of Souls, which is also in And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art. 

A piece in Best Classic Bands on John Lennon's composition tape for "Yellow Submarine." 

Interviewed about Orson Welles's radio adaptation of Dracula, 1941's The Wolf Man, Mary Howitt's 1829 poem, "The Spider and the Fly," the Grateful Dead on Halloween 1971, and the Darkness radio program, "Weekend Vacation." 

Interviewed about Bessie Smith, Orson Welles, an animated adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and Columbia Workshop's "A Story in Dogtown Commons." 

Interviewed about Winslow Homer, the Who, Bob Dylan, Hammer horror, and Sheridan Le Fanu.