{"id":937,"date":"2008-06-17T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T03:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/wamu-kojo-nnamdi-show-and-musings-on-radio-interviews\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T03:21:02","slug":"wamu-kojo-nnamdi-show-and-musings-on-radio-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/wamu-kojo-nnamdi-show-and-musings-on-radio-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"WAMU: Kojo Nnamdi Show, and musings on radio interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got my chance to <a href=\"http:\/\/wamu.org\/programs\/kn\/08\/06\/16.php#20847\">appear on the Kojo Nnamdi show<\/a> on WAMU in Washington, which means that except for Chicago, I&#8217;ve been on all the major NPR markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia (WHYY&#8217;s building is <em>soooo<\/em> nice) + assorted markets in New Hampshire, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that these were one of the best prepared set of questions I have ever encountered (that and my All Things Considered, where the host actually read the book). And by now I have dealt with many many radio interviews (probably 40?), so I&#8217;ve come to understand what makes for a good host..<\/p>\n<p>A good radio interviewer cues you up with a smart question, so you know where they are going, but they also seem informed. A bad interviewer is one who steals your punchline.<\/p>\n<p>Bad: &#8220;So I hear fortune cookies are Japanese.&#8221; (You have no traction to work off of)<\/p>\n<p>Good: &#8220;I understand that your research about fortune cookies led you to some interesting discoveries about war time politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The credit often goes to the producer, who reads the book and puts together all the qusetions.<\/p>\n<p>Also amazing, as I walked out the door, they handed me a CD with the interview on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got my chance to appear on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU in Washington, which means that except for Chicago, I&#8217;ve been on all the major NPR markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia (WHYY&#8217;s building is soooo nice) + assorted markets in New Hampshire, Colorado. I have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,62,5,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-audio","category-book-musings","category-media-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}