What is the proudest moment of your career so far . Guest wow. I dont mean to sound snarky or snippy here, but i hope it is yet to come. I feel very fortunate in just a few days well start our 12th season on pbs. Im now on 15 years in public radio. I feel very blessed at start of this year to do all weve done so far. I hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to i hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that i am still in here and so many people that against me in so much of my life. When i started on npr some years ago i remember the complaint when i first started, that i talk too loud. My favorite was that my laugh was too boisterously last too boisterously. My laugh was too much mike haydns was wrong, i spoke too fast, it was too big for public radio. This is National Public radio and i started the bidding was i was not going to make it, 15 years on public radio. People didnt think, charlie rose had done well for years nobody expected
And it just happened to Editorial Department which has three people, control of the weekly book page and there is a change in the administration and i moved one step up in the person youve been running the book page moved from one step up and asked if i take over the book page and i said sure because demand for ebooks. It really was purely accidental. I started editing the page with reviews by other people the people who couldnt pay anything but the book itself. In North Carolina come a very good novelist wrote me a note and said why dont you write something for the page yourself, not just a book news thing, but a review. I thought thats a good idea. So i started writing down the lefthand corner of the page, a book review. It was just a case of wanting meeting to another. I was lucky enough to get a fellowship at harvard in 196869 for the Academic Year and i thought i would be studied magical issues but ended up studying american nurture. Youre supposed to go up and expand your mind an