Bill Flanagan, Fondly Biting the TV-Network Hand

Fresh Air

Published August 28, 2007 at 11:41 AM EDT

Novelist Bill Flanagan wrote the comedy A&R about the smooth operators and the scatty artists who make the music business so entertaining.

Now he's lampooning the cable-TV industry in his novel New Bedlam. The source for his send-ups? His day job as an MTV networks exec.

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