Meeting Mojo Nixon and Debbie Gibson
On meeting the parents of a big foot baby
Meeting Count Scary
On the heroes who live next door
Meeting Boy George
On the complication of identity and time.
Meeting Mr. T.
On having plans and loving it when they come together.
Meeting Rick Kogan
On historians and history and seizing the present...
Meeting Mark Grace
On meeting your hero's heroes...
Meeting Rick Steves
How someone else's hero can become one of yours, too
Meeting Martha Stewart
A story of when your public and private personas conflict...
Meeting Dave Brubeck
Another story of discretion...
Meeting Jon Hendricks
On the best advice a musician could give.
Meeting DJ John Richards
On the power of music and connection, of community and radio.
Meeting Ernie Harwell
On baseball and solid stories, well-told.
Sterling Morrison
On going where the story is, and never being surprised by who's there to tell it
Moe Tucker
From the mini-series, Meeting the Velvet Underground: Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, and Sterling Morrison I was lucky to be at the height of my Velvet...
John Cale
A story of talent and practice
Maria Andersson
On heroes, and privilege and postage stamps
Keanu Reeves
Stretching the definition of both "meeting" and "hero" but sometimes that's better
Keith Haring
Sometimes people I met weren’t my hero when I met them. In Keith Haring’s case, part of the reason he was a hero is how I wound up meeting him. I was in...
Douglas Adams
When I was a freshman in college I went to a book signing near campus at one of Evanston’s many now-closed bookstores: Kroch's and Brentano's. The author...
Meeting Lou Reed
Meeting the man who inspired it all, and by "it all" I mean pretty much everything I've done since
Meeting My Heroes, the introduction
How I came to meet them and what I learned from each