The Freshmaker - Friday evening, Kevin and I went to the inaugural event of the California Lecture series. The speaker was Terry Gross, from NPR's Fresh Air. She's a little sprite of a woman, much smaller and pixieish than you'd imagine from her voice. She was surprisingly more direct than you'd anticipate from her careful questions on the radio. She mostly used the opportunity to give examples of how interviews can go dreadfully wrong, often for comedic effect. With nearly three decades of interviews and anecdotes, I expected her to share more than the recent controversies with Gene Simmons and Monica Lewinsky though. I enjoyed the lecture but found myself wanting to go deeper into her process for interviewing and why she prefers to interview her guests via satellite, rather than meeting in person. But perhaps the lesson to be learned is that getting an interviewer to open up a difficult task.