Photo courtesy Bob Fass Long before Occupy Wall Street, there was Bob Fass, the legendary overnight host on WBAI whose 50-year career is lovingly saluted in the documentary “Radio Unnameable.’’ ...

In a now famous review of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, the literary critic James Wood described what he saw as a new genre of literary fiction: “hysterical realism.” The label, and his ...

"You're either with us or against us," declared George W. Bush at the start of the War on Terror. Ghalib Islam's debut novel, Fire in the Unnameable Country, gives ...

Beginning in 1963, Bob Fass’ freeform radio show, “Radio Unnameable” aired in the anything-goes nocturne of midnight to 5 a.m. on New York’s WBAI FM, taking calls from lonelyhearts and ...

By THR Staff Radio Unnameable - H 2012 Starting in 1963, New Yorker Bob Fass hosted a program on non-commercial WBAI that epitomized what came to be known as freeform radio: an unpredictable mix ...

Described in an early radio program as “friend of the friendless, champion of the abandoned and advocate of the alienated,” Fass has been doing his free-form “Radio Unnameable” for nearly ...

Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, is moving a block away from its current location at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue to 615 Vanderbilt Avenue over the next couple of weeks. The store has been ...

As a story about an imageless medium, it’s hard to dispute that Unnameable matches radio’s visual perspective a bit too closely; it’s little more than a loop of talking heads and stock footage.

A sporadically hard-selling homage to a cult hero from an overchronicled era, Radio Unnameable considers the career of Bob Fass, whose late-night free-form radio program of the same name on WBAI h ...