P r a i s e f o r P u b l i c R a d i o : B e h i n d t h e V o i c e s
"For the millions of us who can't live without public radio, Lisa Phillips answers our questions about the people we love to listen to. Just as we've gotten to know
them by the stories they tell, she tells their stories -- giving us a personal connection to this vital, daily source of news and information."
-Judy Woodruff - Broadcast journalist, former Correspondent and Anchor for PBS and CNN
"Phillips is a gifted journalist, able to draw out her subjects' vibrant presence on the printed page."
-Publishers Weekly
"This book is such fun. Phillips has a knack for finding the entertaining and telling anecdote that brings the public radio personalities behind the microphones to
life."
Carole Zimmer - former NPR reporter, currently with Bloomberg News.
Lisa Phillips has dug deep into the lives of more than forty of the industry’s cherished voices for a closer, more intimate look. With vignettes that are both breezy
and earnest, Phillips interweaves personal history and contemporary life in a fresh and captivating way.
Michael P. McCauley - author of NPR: The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio
"If you're like me, you spend five hours a week with Terry Gross, and they're some of the finest hours to boot. Saturday means Scott Simon; the voice of Ira Glass
echoes frequently in the back of your mind. For those of us who connect to the larger world principally through the radio, these voices are not so far from being
members of the family. And yet we know little about them, since radio is usually ignored by the tv and film-obsessed media. So these respectful, straightforward,
and informative short profiles provide a real service--Lisa Phillips has provided us with the equivalent of a playbill for public radio. Any fan will want a copy."
Bill McKibben - author, The End of Nature
"With an acute sensitivity to the telling detail, Phillips rounds out these 'familiar' characters more fully and more perceptively than I have seen anywhere else."
Jack Mitchell - author, Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio and professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Articles and Reviews
Public Radio fans who would like to turn the microphones around so their favorite hosts are on the answering side of the interview should enjoy "Public Radio:
Behind the Voices" by Lisa A. Phillips. Read more...
-David Hinkley, the New York Daily News
...the advance buzz (at least on the north side of the third floor of 635 Mass. Ave) suggests it will be a favorite of the mug and tote bag set. Read more...
-Mixed Signals: NPR's Blog
Public Radio: Behind The Voices "draws masterful pictures of forty-three different public radio personalities. The overall sense of the book is how nurturing the
public radio environment was for allowing women, minorities, and the less experienced to obtain a start and to develop their careers into national notoriety."
-Heartland Reviews
For lovers of National Public Radio, "Public Radio: Behind the Voices" is a welcome book indeed.
Lisa A. Phillips is a fiction writer and former radio reporter who has interviewed the major NPR reporters -- those we never see -- and has written about them in a
lively way and has made a respectable effort to pull away the veil, or "the inherent modesty of radio." Read more...
-Deseret Morning News
Lisa Phillips, a journalism teacher at the State University of New York, has collected the stories of those personalities in "Public Radio: Behind the Voices". If
you don't listen to public radio, the book will mean absolutely nothing to you. If you do, you won't want to miss it. Read more...
-Wisconsin State Journal
The book is...filled with information and insight. A compilation of 43 profiles and interviews of personalities from every sector of public radio, it's a tasty, well-
prepared meal that's not without a generous assortment of spicy entrees. Read more...