David Letterman Reflects On His Career
On May 20th, CBS will broadcast the very last episode of “The Late Show” with David Letterman. After 33 years on television, Letterman will be signing off, and handing over his show to Stephen Colbert, the politically astute character performer who arrives at CBS by way of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report”. The New York Times published an interview this morning with Letterman. You can find it here. Last week Elvis Costello appeared on the show for the 27th, and likely, final, time.
WSL Hosting Author Tonight
Walnut Street Lab will play host to a different kind of guest this evening. Andre Ervin will be reading from his yet-to-be-released novel “Burning Down George Orwell’s House”:
Ray Welter, who was until recently a highflying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch.
It’s a book The Austin Chronicle is calling “a whisky-soaked hoot worth hollering about.” Doors for at the Lab open at 7, the event begins around 8pm tonight. The book is available May 5.
