Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Second Installment of It Was Today: revisiting myself on NPR, a new feature of my Substack, Keep the Sabbath With Me. I am Andrei Codrescu. I regularly spoke my mind on national public radio’s All Things Considered from 1983 until 2016. I was never told what to think or say. NPR ID’d me as a poet.
That and my accent protected me. Nobody knows what a poet is and my accent, well, a lot of people weren't sure they heard me right.
Did he really say that?
I will post each Saturday an archival NPR essay with a current view of it from the shipwreck of 2025. If you would like to access It Was Today: Revisiting Myself at NPR (1983-2016), take out a paid subscription. You might get something from it: I will be your madeleine.
Today's feature builds on the comments I made on NPR when Andrew Kay died on August 28 1982. Kay was the inventor of the KayPro in 1982, my first word processor. The screen on that compact little machine propelled me into a future I could not imagine. The time between the KayPro in 1982 and the iPhone in 2007 was only sixteen years, but “human years" is no longer an accurate measure. It is now 1925 and we are space travelers, soon to leave our bodies behind and become cosmic Points of View.
