CURT SMITH

CURT SNITH STOPS BY SPORTSTALKNY TO CHAT WITH MARK ROSENMAN AND AJ CARTER ABOUT HIS LATEST BOOK "PULL UP A CHAIR, THE VIN SCULLY STORY"Curt Smith is an American author, media host and columnist. He is a 1973 graduate of SUNY at Geneseo. He worked as a Gannett Company reporter, a speechwriter to former Texas Governor John Connolly, and an editor at the Saturday Evening Post. In 1989 he joined the George H.W. Bush Administration as a speechwriter.After Bush’s defeat in 1992 Smith lectured at the Smithsonian Institution and then turned to radio and television. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted the Midday Milwaukee talk show on radio station WISN. He also hosted WROC-TV’s Perfectly Clear program from 2000 to 2002 and a 1997-2002 series on the Fox Empire Sports Network.Currently Smith hosts the weekly Perspectives series on Rochester, New York’s NPR affiliate WXXI. The show deals with politics, pop culture, sports, and other topics. Smith is the author of 12 books including his new book “Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story” You can catch Sportstalkny live every Wednesday from 9 PM to 11 PM at sportstalknylive.com (leave off the www) click the go live link at 9 PM.