Friday, July 16, 2010

"Hit" the Tracks with NPR Podcast


Last Friday author Eric D. Goodman read an abridgement of his story, “One Last Hit,” on Baltimore’s NPR station, WYPR. The serialized excerpt from TRACKS aired on The Signal, on the air and online at noon and 7. TRACKS is a novel in stories that takes place on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago.


As WYPR said, The Signal has serialized several stories from TRACKS on the program over the years. With about 30,000 weekly listeners, Goodman's TRACKS readings have become a local favorite in the Baltimore-DC area.


Miss the broadcast? Listen to the podcast at the link below!


Be sure to hit this lit! The reading is about 22 minutes into the podcast at the link below.



http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wypr/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&id=1672430&pid=347&sid=14

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Friday, July 09, 2010

TRACKS Returns to NPR

Today Eric D. Goodman returns to the Baltimore NPR station (WYPR) to read from his fiction on The Signal. Each week The Signal explores the cultural landscape of Baltimore.

Tune in on the radio or online. The broadcast is at 12 noon and repeats at 7 p.m. today: Friday, July 9. Adjust your radio to 88.1 FM or log on to www.wypr.org.

“One Last Hit” is an abridged story from TRACKS, a novel in stories that takes place on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago.

The story was originally published in the Freshly Squeezed anthology published by Loyola’s Apprentice House. It follows a hit man as he prepares to carry out his last job and contemplates how he got into the unscrupulous business to begin with.

The novel is represented by the Doris S. Michaels Literary Agency Inc. in New York.

Enjoy this hit of fiction today at 88.1 FM or www.wypr.org. Tune in at noon or 7.

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