Sept. 6, 2022
John talks about talking to Lewis Chester
This week’s episode of The Musical Innertube has special meaning for me. I read American Melodrama around 1970 or so; my dad got me to read it. It’s an amazing, magisterial account of the events of 1968, beautifully written from a non-American POV. So I reached out to Lewis Chester, the book’s last surviving co-author, and we had a wonderful talk. Hope you enjoy — a remembrance of history from one who was there!
A Thurber (maybe!) for Tabitha!
One of our favorite author-poet-teachers is in line for a major award! (No, not the leg lamp from A Christmas Story! We're talking MAJOR award here!)
Lee Upton's 2024 novel Tabitha, Get Up! has been named as a semi-final…
Podcasts by Friends of the Podcast
We here at the Musical Innertube know you like to listen to podcasts. But we've also heard from those of you who say, "John and Don, the Innertube is only 30-40 minutes long! How do we fill the many other minutes of the week?"
Here are two su…
