You can stop Jean Shepherd's world wherever you want and get off. Six nights a week, up to a million people gather around their radios to hear Shep tell how it is to be a kid growing up in America, laugh at themselves as he needles American mores and customs.
And where you get off depends upon your age, "The adults think I'm just reminiscing," he says, "college kids think I'm a humorist, and old people think of me ‘as that guy who talks.' "...
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