See You on the Radio
By Charles Osgood
G.P. Putnam's Sons, $23.95
ISBN 0399145427

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Title of your new book:
See You in the Radio

Describe your book in 50 words or less:
It's about 8 1/2 inches long and 5 1/2 inches wide and 1 1/4 inches thick and has my picture on the cover wearing a straight tie with bow ties on it.

What special message do you want to send to your readers with this book?
Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Which one extremely famous person would you like to read your book?
Oprah Winfrey

What is your favorite book? Favorite movie?
"Words at Play" by Willard Espy

Casablanca

Where did you do your first broadcast, and what was it about?
In Philadelphia -- played organ on a radio drama.

What was your most memorable broadcast about?
It was a radio piece about the Woodstock Folk-Rock festival which I called something else in a horrible slip of the tongue (editorially correct though!)

You're also the author of "There's Nothing I Wouldn't Do If You Would Be My POSSLQ" (Pinnacle Books, 1983). Do you currently have a POSSLQ? (And by the way, what is a POSSLQ?)
POSSLQ is the census bureau acronym for Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. I've had the same POSSLQ for 25 years -- my wife Jean.

Please share one of your poems with us:
Man's greatest invention is not the TV
Nor is it the radio, it seems to me
It isn't the airplane, it isn't the car
As wonderful as these inventions all are.
It's not the computer or cellular phone
Or any device or machine that is known.
No nuclear weapon of war ever shook
The world like man's greatest invention --
the book.

-- Charles Osgood

Charles Osgood, one of broadcasting's funniest, most stylish writers and newsmen, shares witty, wise and rueful commentaries in See You on the Radio.