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Today, I had a great time on WUNC’s “The State of Things.” Laura Leslie hosted the pro­gram. She was funny, pro­fes­sional, and put up with me mak­ing faces at her. She also has an incred­i­ble voice. The day before, pro­ducer Susan Davis called, and we chat­ted about the book, writ­ing, teach­ing, etc. So going in, I knew what expect. The stu­dios, located in a sec­tion of Durham that used to be a tobacco warehouse–near the Durham Bulls base­ball sta­dium, are very pleasant.

When they were doing a sound check on my mic, Laura asked me what I had for break­fast. “Noth­ing,” I said, “and I’m starv­ing!” Remem­ber what I wrote about the stuff that comes out of my mouth? That’s a prime exam­ple.  Another thing they didn’t except was my hands. When I get hyped, I talk with my hands. So my hands were fly­ing every­where. Also, the guests after me were musi­cians, so there was a humon­gous bass on the floor next to me.  It was every­thing I could do not to pluck it.

The inter­view is archived on the WUNC web­site here: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0417b09.mp3/view

After we fin­ished, I slipped out of the stu­dio to take a cou­ple of photos.

Then I drove down to Raleigh, where I met the boy and one of his friends for the best burg­ers ever.

Thanks to every­one who sent tweets, posted, emailed, and fol­lowed along. I was read­ing them dur­ing breaks.

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