Yayyy staff of NPR! I think it’s a clear tribute to your skill and professionalism that you made me sound vaguely coherent! Here’s the interview.

My interview with Liane Hansen will be live this Sunday at 9:40am EST on NPR’s Weekend Edition. As I’ve said, she was fantastic. I’m not so sure about me — I have no clear memory of what I said. I was sort of enveloped in the warm, soothing presence that is Liane Hansen (a presence powerful enough that it can be experienced remotely through a set of studio headphones) and began babbling while she chuckled periodically in an encouraging, indulgent fashion. As far as I know you may be tuning in to hear me hold forth on the effect of tidal forces and water temperature on oyster farm output in Japan, a subject about which I know nothing and may not, strictly speaking, be an actual subject. I think the book may have also come up.