October 2, 2024

The San Francisco Ascetic

Outsiders think of the San Francisco Bay Area as the land of the libertine: sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, and tech zillionaires.  Of course, generalizations have many exceptions, but the following seems more valid. I am speaking...

April 13, 2014

Would You Like to Be Interviewed in the Media?

I’m in my 25th year as the producer and host of Work with Marty Nemko on KALW, a National Public Radio station in San Francisco. On that program, I interview many people. How I choose whom to interview I don’t care much whether a pe...