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"Lists of Note: An Eclectic Collection Deserving of a Wider Audience"

Aired on Tuesday, July 28th.

On this edition of ST, an engaging chat with Shaun Usher, a writer, researcher, and blogger based in the U.K. Usher tells us about his new book, just out, which he edited and compiled: "Lists of Note: An Eclectic Collection Deserving of a Wider Audience." Hailed in the British press as "beautiful and immensely satisfying" (The Observer) and as "1. Splendid. 2. Addictive. 3. Sumptuously produced with interesting photos and facsimiles" (The Independent), this book curates 125 charming, off-the-wall, surprising, and/or heartbreaking lists that have been jotted down over the centuries by different writers for different reasons. For example, in this book, we find: Albert Einstein's shockingly harsh list of demands for his estranged wife, Scott Fitzgerald's playful and extensive conjugation of "to cocktail," Walt Disney's list of fifty (!) different names for the dwarfs who would appear in his landmark "Snow White" film, and a raw, almost stream-of-conscious list of people who might have assassinated JFK (as composed only hours after the tragedy by JFK's personal secretary). Lavishly illustrated and irresistibly readable, "Lists of Note" is that rare book that's equally fun and fascinating to read.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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