Our man in Los Angeles Brendan Newnam has been, as they say on the Left Coast, “hella” busy lately. In addition to his weekly podcast, The Dinner Party Download, being named one of iTunes’ top podcasts of 2008, he’s also been releasing some music. So you’ll pardon the lag in correspondence. In today’s letter, Brendan [...]

FROM BRENDAN NEWNAM, HOST OF THE DINNER PARTY DOWNLOAD, DISPATCHING FROM LOS ANGELES: Alistar Cooke had one of the greatest jobs in the world. He gallavanted around America for decades and produced a weekly “Letter from America” for the BBC.The letter was usually a blend of observations and anecdotes about life in Cooke’s adopted country. [...]

FROM BRENDAN NEWNAM, HOST OF THE DINNER PARTY DOWNLOAD, DISPATCHING FROM LOS ANGELES: Alistar Cooke had one of the greatest jobs in the world. He gallavanted around America for decades and produced a weekly “Letter from America” for the BBC.The letter was usually a blend of observations and anecdotes about life in Cooke’s adopted country. [...]