Due to unavoidable circumstances, we regret to announce that the July 20 book event for Making Waves: The Rag Radio Interviews has been postponed. We apologize for any inconvenience.
We will announce new event details as soon as possible. Please contact briscoecenterevents@austin.utexas.edu with any questions. Thank you for your support and interest in Making Waves.
About the book:
Journalist and activist Thorne Dreyer has interviewed hundreds of people for Rag Radio since it went on the air in 2009. Making Waves features transcripts from twenty-one of those interviews, with everyone from TV anchor Dan Rather to Senator Bernie Sanders to monumental sculptor Bob “Daddy-O” Wade. The Rag Radio archive is now part of the collections at the Briscoe Center for American History.
As a student at the University of Texas in the 1960s, Dreyer joined the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and became heavily involved in civil rights and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. He also helped create and edit two underground newspapers—The Rag in Austin and Space City! in Houston—and later ran a public relations business with a diverse list of clients, including progressive political campaigns.
Making Waves holds a wealth of information, but Dreyer makes it read like conversations among friends. “I always tell my guests that I want the discussion to be informal,” Dreyer says. “We’re going to record some important history here, but we also want to have fun.”
Making Waves is published by the Briscoe Center for American History and distributed by the University of Texas Press.
About the Author:
Thorne Dreyer is a director of the New Journalism Project and host of Rag Radio. A founder of 1960s underground papers The Rag in Austin and Space City! in Houston, he was an editor of Celebrating The Rag and Exploring Space City! He was also a feature writer for the early Texas Monthly magazine and general manager of KPFT-FM, the Pacifica radio station in Houston.
