Sure, he’s hawking his newest book, a memoir about his childhood called The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, but it’s still an enjoyable experience to hear my favorite travel writer Bill Bryson interviewed. I actually have a copy of A Short History of Nearly Everything in audio book, which he reads himself, and I like his soft, avuncular Britishy twang (even though he was born in the US, Bryson lived long enough…like Paul Theroux…in Britain, that he has an accent). Anyway, in this interview on NPR Bryson reads a bit from the book and talks about growing up in Iowa where, one might guess, it helped to have a vivid imagination.