He is not married but shares a close personal and professional relationship with Stacy Abramson, a woman with whom he has co-produced many programs. He also enjoys listening to actors reading short stories in New York s Symphony Space Theatre, stories subsequently edited for WNYC s lively broadcast series, Selected Shorts. Among nonfiction writers, Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker writer, now deceased, looms largest. When he first read it, Isay retraced Mitchell s steps through the places Mitchell described. I know it s picking up steam because I m running around lecturing, and we have a lot of very talented interns coming in here.
People are excited about radio.
They re turning to radio because it s so cheap. Stacy started this program out on Riker s Island, teaching kids to make their own radio documentaries on the web. Public radio is great. You can t beat that pop for your program. Over 7 million people.