Radio is undergoing the sort of DIY revolution that journalism faced with the advent of blogs. If ‘Out on the Wire’ helps convince the legions of amateur podcasters that good radio is far more than recording hour upon hour of unedited gabbing, it will be not only useful and fun but that much rarer thing: a public service.
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Christopher Nixon takes a look at Jessica Abel’s latest book, Out on the Wire—a graphic novel about the radio. It’s “a love letter from one blossoming new media to another,” he writes.
