Marcos Villatoro on literary radio in L.A.

Marcos Villatoro, who hosts the book show Shelf Life on KPFK (Mondays, 2 p.m.), talks about L.A.'s literary radio scene in an excerpt from the anthology, Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles. The whole thing is on the CaliforniaAuthors.com website, but here's a snippet:

"It wasn’t long before I started receiving phone calls from — yes, you guessed it — New York. Publicists, to be specific. Publicists who had heard of a new radio book show in Southern California. Publicists who understood that Angelenos buy more books than do New Yorkers in any given year. They knew that a good 150,000 of those book buyers were trapped on the 405 or the 110 at around two o’clock on Mondays. Because let’s face it: people who listen to public radio? They’re the same people who claim Dutton’s Brentwood Books or Vroman’s as their favorite hangout."