Fred Flaxman's World Wide Web Site
Read
excerpts from Fred's books-in-progress: (1) Sixty Slices of Life... on
Wry, (2) Doctors, Dentists, Dishwashers, and Other Demons of Modern
Life, (3) Compact Discoveries: A Personal Voyage through Classical
Music on Compact Discs, and the already published (4) Timeless Tales of Reginald Bretnor.
Read Fred's scripts for his radio commentaries [under construction] and his articles about
Southwest Oregon. If you enjoy bad poetry, click on Poems?
A
one-page biographical summary of the career of the
writer/editor/publisher/producer/radio personality and former public
broadcasting executive.
A tongue-in-cheek memoir about the private life of a public broadcaster.
A
book of humorous essays, many of which appeared previously in the Wall
Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco
Examiner, Baltimore Sun, Houston Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, Seattle
Times, Sacramento and Parenting magazines, and other publications.
Fred's
radio series is broadcast weekly on public radio stations from San
Juan, Puerto Rico, to Eugene, Oregon. Almost 100 one-hour programs have
been completed and broadcast to date. Many of them can be
streamed on demand at www.prx.org. A complete list of programs, with short descriptions and full scripts, can be found at www.compactdiscoveries.com.
Fred's
classical music columns appeared in the Jefferson Monthly, the regional
magazine of Jefferson Public Radio, serving southern Oregon and
northern California, and in INPRINT, the quarterly magazine of the BSU
Radio Network in Idaho. By clicking on Compact Discoveries here or above you will visit Compact
Discoveries: A Personal Voyage through Classical Music on Compact
Discs, a book in progress.
Fred's new series of radio commentaries,
Flaxman's Follies, is available for streaming on demand through the Public Radio Exchange at www.prx.org. He was previously an occasional commentator for the internationally
distributed public radio series, Marketplace and Monitor Radio, and for The Jefferson
Daily, a regional "All Things Considered"-type program broadcast on Jefferson Public Radio, covering southern Oregon
and northern California.
Fred's articles
on southwest Oregon have been published in Sacramento, the Jefferson
Monthly, and Southern Oregon Heritage magazines. Click here or above to read these now.
A
collection of 15 classic short stories by the late writer whose works
appeared in national magazines and book collections from 1947 through
his death in 1992. Compiled and edited by Fred Flaxman, who owns the
Bretnor Literary Estate and the Bretnor Archives. Click here to read a few of these stories now.
Articles about Public Broadcasting
This section contains articles about public television and radio by Fred Flaxman previously published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other newspapers. [under construction]
The
reason people can't stand the poetry of our times is because they can't
see the stanzas or hear the rhymes. When they don't understand what it
means, they feel it ain't worth a can of beans! Fred's poems (?) are
more like prose 'cause he doesn't like his readers to doze. He hopes
you'll smile, snicker, or laugh real deep. He'll try to keep you from
falling asleep! Click here if you want to see more really bad poetry.
Your reaction to this site would be greatly appreciated. E-mail Fred Flaxman at fred@fredflaxman.com.