6AMUGH

6AMUGH is a novel about the crew of a classic rock radio station morning show in Boston during
October and November of 2001. The novel begins on the day Barry Babcock, the show’s host, Mike, the
producer, Chuck the Sports Nut, the sports reporter, and Jennifer Friendly, aka the Traffic Bunny, the
traffic reporter, move from the afternoon spot they’ve been in for 3 years to the higher-profile morning
spot. A few things are different about the morning timeslot: they now have to get to work by 5 a.m., the
writer, Lenny, quit, retired rather than wake up so early, and he’s being replaced by his nephew, Louis. And
everyone keeps calling up and asking for Jimbo Russell, who retired after decades on the air, leaving
behind a big pair of shoes they’re going to try to fill. On Day One the show is interrupted by the station
manager’s wife who announces that she’s discovered her husband’s been having an affair with the Traffic
Bunny, and that she’s getting her revenge by appointing herself the new station manager and adding a cohost
to the show, a professor of Women’s Studies from UMass Amherst, Gloria Ramone. The two hosts
clash, and just as the show hits its stride, the station manager’s wife cancels the show, sending the staff into
a variety of quandaries, pondering their own existences, and possibly ending the golden age of radio.