A Conversation With Andrei Codrescu

Poet and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu is preparing for the death of the written word. His latest, “Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life In Footnotes),” looks at his own four-decade writing career to examine how language and technology have evolved. The rebirth of words into new forms, he writes, is like “the passage of the soul from one body into another.” Andrei Codrescu joins us.

Also this hour, a favorite of ours from June. Former Seattle Symphony principal cellist Joshua Roman was in the KUOW studios, along with current Symphony cellists Roberta Downey and Walter Gray, and KUOW's Dave Beck. We do a lot of live music in our performance studio, but this rendition of “Stairway to Heaven” – performed by a cello quartet, with Joshua Roman on the Jimmy Page licks – was something special.