If you’re a longtime listener to WBAI, you’re probably quite familiar with the name of the late actor, writer, and Radio Free Eireann raconteur, Malachy McCourt. And contrariwise, you may be even more familiar with the name of Malachy’s older brother Frank McCourt, author of the extraordinary memoir Angela’s Ashes and more. But both Frank and Malachy were more than book writers, they both had careers as newspaper and magazine columnists. And now for the first time, a delicious selection of the brothers’ essays have been collected in a new book called Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt. I was happy to speak with the co-editor of that collection, Tom Allon.

Click on the small triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Tom Allon on the Arts Express radio show this week, heard on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica stations across the nation.

And you can hear one of my favorite selections from the book here: