Believe it or not, I’ve been on WPKN since 1973. Hmmm, so that’s…52 years in 2025? It’s
amazing that I’m still permitted to do a show after more than five decades, that I can still make
it up those back stairs, and that I very much want to continue programming radio to the best of
my ability. Over the years, I’ve served as program director, news director, music director and
librarian (I think). I also delivered a trove of Bob Dylan rarities to be sold at the Music Mash, and
helped WPKN locate to its outstanding new home in downtown Bridgeport.

There are so few stations left that are not strait-jacketed by rules and enforced formats. At
WPKN, each programmer is free to create, across genres. The same freedom applies to our
news and public affairs programming. My own program is on the second, fourth and fifth
Tuesdays of the month, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

I am primarily a journalist and author, with nine published books. The most recent is “The Real
Dirt on America’s Frontier Outlaws.” My freelance writing work has been seen in the New York
Times, Barron’s, Media Village, Autoblog, Autoweek, The Autopian, Car Talk at NPR and the
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. An association with the New York City Jazz
Record is very compatible with WPKN, because I have on many of the musicians I interview.
And if you’re wondering what happened to my twin brother, John, also a longtime programmer,
he’s down in Florida selling antique books.