RADIO CLIPS
You can hear me read from my memoir SEROTONIN CITY You must have a sound card. And it's best to download Realplayer if your current media player won't let you hear my essay. CLICK ON THE BLUE TITLE "SEROTONIN CITY" ABOVE TO PLAY THE RADIO ESSAY.
The piece aired on WBEZ radio a few years ago as part of their series "Chicago Matters: Examining Health."
In the radio essay, I talk about my adventures with anti-depressants and what I call "The Cha-Cha of Diminishing Returns." (The book-length memoir SEROTONIN CITY is currently seeking a publisher.) The essay recounts with my tragic-comic attempts to overcome depression.
Prior to that essay, I did a radio essay for the Chicago Matters series on immigration. My piece dealt with my surreal experience appearing on the cover of the Kellogg's Corn Flake box as a young man. For WBEZ's Chicago Matters series on work -- I was invited to be guest editor of the personal essays on that theme.
Another WBEZ note: I appeared on Ira Glass' debut episode of the award-winning public radio show THIS AMERICAN LIFE. Ira's theme for the show was "quitting," interpreted quite broadly. I read three of my poems. 
