Podcasts about Michael Silverblatt

George Saunders joins for a conversation about Michael Silverblatt, the former host of BOOKWORM. Silverblatt had to retire in 2022 for medical reasons, ending BOOKWORM's 33-year run. Saunders, one of the most venerated writers in America (TENTH OF DECEMBER, LIBERATION DAY, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO), was a regular guest on BOOKWORM starting in 1997 - and one of its most distinct. He and Silverblatt had a special relationship, chronicled across four hours of conversation you can listen to in the KCRW archive. Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his novel LINCOLN IN THE BARDO: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-lincoln-in-the-bardo-part-i Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his collection TENTH OF DECEMBER: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-tenth-of-december-part-one Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his most recent collection of stories and essays, A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-russians-reading-writing-part-1 ---------- instagram: @thousandmoviepod email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com

Get on your spurs & chaps and join our country queens down at the poetry gay bar!Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperative.Watch Miranda Lambert calling out some selfie-takers and the ladies of The View talking about it. And watch her sing "Tin Man" here.Watch Jennifer L. Knox read "Crushing It" here.Maybe the most memorable Tammy Wynette reference is this one from Sordid Lives. "He looked just like Tammy....in the early years," one character says about her brother."Billy Collins is to good poetry what Kenny G is to Charlie Parker" reads this scathing pan of the poet. You can watch Richard Howard read from his poems here (~60 min).Anne Carson is in conversation with Lannan Foundation's Michael Silverblatt here (30 min).Terrance HayesRead B.H. Fairchild's "A Starlit Night" from 32 Poems here.Read "Chopin in Palma," the Susan Mitchell poem in Best American Poetry 2023 (first published in Harvard Review) here. Listen to Mark Doty talk all things Whitman (~50 min)You can watch Frank Bidart read his serial-killer poem "Herbert White" here (~8 min)Here's an amazing tribute to Lucille Clifton organized by SAG-AFTRA, with readings by Geena Davis, Tantoo Cardinal, Isabella Gomez, Mark St. Cyr, Candace Nicholas Lippman, Max Gail, Nicco Annan; Lynne Thompson;  Sidney Clifton; Madeline di Nonno; and  Rochelle Rose. (~70 min)Read Matthew Dickman's poem "Grief."Here's Susan Mitchell's CV.

Close friend of Michael Silverblatt's and Bookworm editor for 30 years, Alan Howard guest hosts this episode on grief and loss. When the two met more than 33 years ago, Michael's first words were, “What are you reading?” It was a question that brought Howard back to literature. Over the years, Michael did the same for thousands of listeners. With Bookworm, he was determined to return literary fiction and poetry to the center of the zeitgeist. In the process, he faced the realities of loss and grief. In conversation after conversation with writers he was forging collegial friendships with, loss itself was a frequent topic of those friendships and conversations. We'll hear from Marilynne Robinson, Joan Didion, Jim Krusoe, Steve Erickson, Dave Eggers, and Mary Ruefle.

Claudia Rankine, award-winning poet and author of Citizen: An American Lyric, a book-length poem about the pernicious racism of American daily life, hosts the first of a three-part episode on the story of America, as told through literary fiction. Over the decades Michael Silverblatt spoke with hundreds of writers about America — its foundation, its history, its challenges, and its culture. This episode reveals the story of America as the story of race. We'll hear from David Foster Wallace, Russell Banks, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, William H. Gass, Joan Didion, and Claudia Rankine herself.

Poet, author, and co-founder of The Song Cave, Alan Felsenthal guest hosts this episode's focus on poetry. As a close friend and mentee of Michael Silverblatt's, Felsenthal recalls Michael's revelation that he had trouble finding his way into poetry until he had several formative experiences, including one he described in 2019 during a Walt Whitman tribute. We'll hear from that tribute with poet Pattiann Rogers reading Whitman. We'll also hear from poets John Ashbery, Coral Bracho, Forrest Gander, and Lucille Clifton.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, “In the field of literature produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.” Michael Silverblatt spoke with eight Nobel Prize laureates. In part 1 of The Nobel Laureates, we'll be hearing from four of them: Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Orhan Pamuk, and Seamus Heaney.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, “In the field of literature produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.” Michael Silverblatt spoke with eight Nobel Prize laureates. In part 1 of the Laureates show, we heard from four of them. In this second part, we'll be hearing excerpts from: Kazuo Ishiguro, Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Lessing, Czesław Miłosz, and Robert Hass speaking about Milosz.

This is the first DT101 Books episode. Karen Hold joins us on the show to talk about Experiencing Design: The Innovator's Journey, a book she co-authored with Jeanne Liedtka and Jessica Eldridge. In DT101 Books episodes, authors explore why their book exists and what it will help you do. Each book is chosen because it has something that will help you think and solve like a designer as you learn, lead and apply design thinking.  Our Guest and Her Co-Authors Jeanne Liedtka is a faculty member at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Her Columbia Business School Publishing books include Designing for Growth: A Manager's Toolkit (2011) and Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector (2017). Karen Hold is the founder of Experience Labs, an innovation consulting firm. She is also the director of DT:DC, a design thinking community in Washington, DC, and a visiting professor at École des Ponts Business School in Paris, France. Jessica Eldridge is a consultant working at the intersection of educational equity and purposeful innovation. She is a specialist in design thinking, innovation management, and cross-sector collaboration.   About Experiencing Design: The Innovator's Journey In daylong hackathons, design thinking seems deceptively easy. On the surface, it involves a set of seemingly simple activities such as gathering data, identifying insights, generating ideas, prototyping, and experimentation. But practiced at a superficial level, even great design tools don't go deep enough to create the shifts in mindset and skill set that are required to achieve transformational impact.  Going deep with design requires more than changing the activities of innovators; it involves creating the conditions that shape who they become. Individuals become design thinkers by experiencing design. Drawing on decades of researching and teaching design thinking to people not trained in design, Jeanne Liedtka, Karen Hold, and Jessica Eldridge offer a guide for how to create these deep experiences at each stage of the design thinking journey, whether for an individual, a team, or an organization.  For each experience phase, they specify the mindset shifts and competencies that need to be achieved, describe how different personality types experience different kinds of journeys, and show how to fully leverage the diversity of teams. Experiencing Design explores both the science and practicalities of design and includes two assessment instruments for individual and organizational development. Ultimately, innovators need to be someone new to create something new. This book shows you how to use design thinking to make this happen.   Show Highlights [00:56] Dawan muses on trying to come up with a name for the podcast book episodes. [01:06] Michael Silverblatt as the one and only Bookworm. [02:07] Karen talks about the ideas and discussions that started the book-writing process. [02:51] Igniting the design spark (or not!) in the people she works with. [04:57] The book is for those already familiar with, and using, design thinking. [06:05] It's intended to help design thinking users deepen their practice. [07:25] Different personality types experience design and design thinking differently. [08:11] Karen, Jeanne, and Jessica developed four Innovator Personalities. [08:20] You have to become someone new to make something new. [08:54] Karen gives an example from her time on the brand team at Folgers during the rise of Starbucks. [10:15] Quantitative versus qualitative research. [10:48] Biases in decision making. [13:47] Insights and sensemaking occurs gradually and purposefully. [15:04] Sensemaking involves learning from perspectives that are not our own. [18:00] The book provides a set of Minimum Viable Competencies (MVCs) – behaviors and indicators that help designers gauge skill and mindset improvement. [19:00] Karen discusses some of the MVCs found in the book. [20:00] Observation versus interpretation. [21:33] Double-loop learning. [22:00] Becoming too attached to one point of view and closing off. [23:16] MVCs are skills that people can improve with time, training, and use. [24:47] The book offers the reader an entire section on creating a personal development plan [26:45] A digital tool to help readers develop their plan is in beta-test and will be available soon. [28:13] The development plan process also works for teams within an organization. [30:30] Some of the surprises that appeared during the writing journey. [30:43] The tale of how the title of the book changed at the last minute. [35:12] Karen talks about working with her co-authors, and her shift from learner to sharer. [36:58] Missing the daily learning that happened during the writing of the book. [38:14] The intense focus that happened during, and even because of, the pandemic. [38:54] The shift to working virtually. [40:03] The science behind the “A-ha! moment.” [41:55] Why Karen makes sure that her workshops now have an overnight in between activities. [42:45] The difference between ordinary and expert intuition. [44:03] The hope Karen has for those who read the book. [46:00] Fluid Hive's resources for those wanting to learn and practice design thinking.   Links Order your copy of Experiencing Design   Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like From Branding to Design + Teaching Design Teams + Leading Summer of Design with Karen Hold — DT101E13 Designing for the Greater Good, Strategy + Design Thinking, and Measuring Design Thinking with Jeanne Liedtka — DT101 E1 Design Thinking at Work + Three Tensions Designers Navigate with David Dunne — DT101 E23   Fluid Hive Resources Download Fluid Hive's Innovation Shield — a guide to avoiding innovation traps by asking 9 of Fluid Hive's Design Thinking Questions Innovation Smart Start Webinar — Learn new ways to Ask Like a Designer and take your innovation projects from frantic to focused by working smart from the start. Fluid Hive: Learn — A growing collection of courses, webinars, and articles for people expanding their design thinking, service design, and human-centered design skills – people who want to think and solve like a designer.

This is the first DT101 Books episode. Karen Hold joins us on the show to talk about Experiencing Design: The Innovator's Journey, a book she co-authored with Jeanne Liedtka and Jessica Eldridge. In DT101 Books episodes, authors explore why their book exists and what it will help you do. Each book is chosen because it has something that will help you think and solve like a designer as you learn, lead and apply design thinking.  Our Guest and Her Co-Authors Jeanne Liedtka is a faculty member at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Her Columbia Business School Publishing books include Designing for Growth: A Manager's Toolkit (2011) and Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector (2017). Karen Hold is the founder of Experience Labs, an innovation consulting firm. She is also the director of DT:DC, a design thinking community in Washington, DC, and a visiting professor at École des Ponts Business School in Paris, France. Jessica Eldridge is a consultant working at the intersection of educational equity and purposeful innovation. She is a specialist in design thinking, innovation management, and cross-sector collaboration.   About Experiencing Design: The Innovator's Journey In daylong hackathons, design thinking seems deceptively easy. On the surface, it involves a set of seemingly simple activities such as gathering data, identifying insights, generating ideas, prototyping, and experimentation. But practiced at a superficial level, even great design tools don't go deep enough to create the shifts in mindset and skill set that are required to achieve transformational impact.  Going deep with design requires more than changing the activities of innovators; it involves creating the conditions that shape who they become. Individuals become design thinkers by experiencing design. Drawing on decades of researching and teaching design thinking to people not trained in design, Jeanne Liedtka, Karen Hold, and Jessica Eldridge offer a guide for how to create these deep experiences at each stage of the design thinking journey, whether for an individual, a team, or an organization.  For each experience phase, they specify the mindset shifts and competencies that need to be achieved, describe how different personality types experience different kinds of journeys, and show how to fully leverage the diversity of teams. Experiencing Design explores both the science and practicalities of design and includes two assessment instruments for individual and organizational development. Ultimately, innovators need to be someone new to create something new. This book shows you how to use design thinking to make this happen.   Show Highlights [00:56] Dawan muses on trying to come up with a name for the podcast book episodes. [01:06] Michael Silverblatt as the one and only Bookworm. [02:07] Karen talks about the ideas and discussions that started the book-writing process. [02:51] Igniting the design spark (or not!) in the people she works with. [04:57] The book is for those already familiar with, and using, design thinking. [06:05] It's intended to help design thinking users deepen their practice. [07:25] Different personality types experience design and design thinking differently. [08:11] Karen, Jeanne, and Jessica developed four Innovator Personalities. [08:20] You have to become someone new to make something new. [08:54] Karen gives an example from her time on the brand team at Folgers during the rise of Starbucks. [10:15] Quantitative versus qualitative research. [10:48] Biases in decision making. [13:47] Insights and sensemaking occurs gradually and purposefully. [15:04] Sensemaking involves learning from perspectives that are not our own. [18:00] The book provides a set of Minimum Viable Competencies (MVCs) – behaviors and indicators that help designers gauge skill and mindset improvement. [19:00] Karen discusses some of the MVCs found in the book. [20:00] Observation versus interpretation. [21:33] Double-loop learning. [22:00] Becoming too attached to one point of view and closing off. [23:16] MVCs are skills that people can improve with time, training, and use. [24:47] The book offers the reader an entire section on creating a personal development plan [26:45] A digital tool to help readers develop their plan is in beta-test and will be available soon. [28:13] The development plan process also works for teams within an organization. [30:30] Some of the surprises that appeared during the writing journey. [30:43] The tale of how the title of the book changed at the last minute. [35:12] Karen talks about working with her co-authors, and her shift from learner to sharer. [36:58] Missing the daily learning that happened during the writing of the book. [38:14] The intense focus that happened during, and even because of, the pandemic. [38:54] The shift to working virtually. [40:03] The science behind the “A-ha! moment.” [41:55] Why Karen makes sure that her workshops now have an overnight in between activities. [42:45] The difference between ordinary and expert intuition. [44:03] The hope Karen has for those who read the book. [46:00] Fluid Hive's resources for those wanting to learn and practice design thinking.   Links Order your copy of Experiencing Design   Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like From Branding to Design + Teaching Design Teams + Leading Summer of Design with Karen Hold — DT101E13 Designing for the Greater Good, Strategy + Design Thinking, and Measuring Design Thinking with Jeanne Liedtka — DT101 E1 Design Thinking at Work + Three Tensions Designers Navigate with David Dunne — DT101 E23   Fluid Hive Resources Download Fluid Hive's Innovation Shield — a guide to avoiding innovation traps by asking 9 of Fluid Hive's Design Thinking Questions Innovation Smart Start Webinar — Learn new ways to Ask Like a Designer and take your innovation projects from frantic to focused by working smart from the start. Fluid Hive: Learn — A growing collection of courses, webinars, and articles for people expanding their design thinking, service design, and human-centered design skills – people who want to think and solve like a designer.

We're joined by Gene Morgan (@genemorga) to discuss watermelon eating contests, the return of HTMLGiant, parents who won't let their kids eat spicy food, and some really good ideas that are yours free of charge.

Mira's mic kept cutting out. Shoutout to Albert for rolling with the punches. Jordan Peterson has COVID and is in a coma.. in Russia? We do some really good Michael Silverblatt impressions. Ty Dolla $ign's charcutterie is troubling. There was a lot of meandering. Would you take a vaccine from Russia? Idk. https://twitter.com/tydollasign/status/1291104912047136773/photo/1

The co-producer of Bookworm, Shawn Michael Sullivan, was able to rebroadcast one of his favorite shows, between Michael Silverblatt and Horacio Castellanos Moya, regarding Senselessness.

Wherein the narrator has managed, just hours before tonsillitis rendered him speechless, to crank out a length collage-style exploration of his favorite book series, Mark Z. Danielewski's 27-volume THE FAMILIAR, and also to relate that with certain things mentioned by his favorite YouTuber, Steve Donoghue. Special thanks to Michael Silverblatt, the host of KCRW's magnificent show BOOKWORM, for the permission to excerpt some of his conversation with Mark Danielewski. Thanks also to Steve Donoghue for letting me chop up some of his own work and assemble it here. His channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue Had to use text-to-speech software for the concluding segment.

**NOTE** For our podcast listeners, the LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. The LARB Radio Hour will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast. This week we present the second half of our interview with Michael Silverblatt, the host of KCRW's nationally syndicated literary show Bookworm. Silverblatt explains his 100-page rule for reading, how old-school writers shared a kind of magician's code, and how he relates his Jewish grandmother to the novels of Samuel Beckett.

In Episode 47, we're joined by Jim Gauer, author of the excellent Novel Explosives, a book you've no doubt heard us mention in recent conversations. Jim is a mathematician, published poet, and self-described as the world's only Marxist venture capitalist.  In this discussion, we cover a range of topics around Jim's book, it's relation to Wallace's sensibilities and Infinite Jest, the dangers of hyper-capitalism, the anxiety of influence, lethality enhancement, and a host of others.  Jim's book can be purchased through your local bookstore (which he most encourages), with the backup plan of online sales (though he implores you to avoid giving Jeff Bezos more money to fuel his space colony dystopia, if possible) - http://zerogrampress.com/2016/10/08/novel-explosives/   Links discussed: Jim's interview with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/jim-gauer-novel-explosives Jim's interview on Eye 94: https://www.mixcloud.com/lumpenradio/eye-94-4-15-2018-jim-gauer/ Jim's Paris Review poetry: https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/2778/will-this-thought-do-jim-gauer   Contact Dave and Matt: Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/ Email - concavityshow@gmail.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/concavityshow/

KCRW's Michael Silverblatt, the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, speaks with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Silverblatt is the real thing -- an authentic, genuinely interested interviewer who reads not only the latest book his guest has come to discuss, but the writer's entire body of work. The post KCRW’s Michael Silverblatt at the LA Times Book Festival appeared first on ThoughtCast®.

Recorded on August 30, 2005 on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, Washington Host: ANDRAS JONES Musical Guests: NILSSON & ANYA MARINA Featuring: RAE DAWN CHONG & MICHAEL SILVERBLATT R8B Theme performed by CHRIS PRICE from his R8B Appearance on 01/14/18 Engineered by Tammy T Produced & Edited by Andras Jones LINKS: RADIO8BLOG - http://www.radio8ball.com/2018/07/08/rae-dawn-chong-michael-silverblatt/ RAE DAWN CHONG - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001044/ MICHAEL SILVERBLATT - https://www.kcrw.com/people/michael-silverblatt RADIO8BALL Website - http://www.radio8ball.com/ R8B APP - http://www.radio8ball.com/the-r8b-app/ RADIO8BALL PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball RADIO8BALL FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/radio8ball/ RADIO8BALL TWITTER - @radio8ball RADIO8BALL INSTAGRAM - @radio8ball_ Support the show. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Despite their easy descriptions-- a book about small town baseball, a memoir of grief and addiction, a discussion of reality television-- Lucas Mann's books are unlike anything else, with each page revealing a fresh perspective or a surprising insight. He tells James about writing weird books in a way that feels normal, throwing subjects off-kilter in interviews, learning to write unhinged to create emotion, and playing Jenga with narrative. Plus, Nathan McNamara on the art of book reviewing.  - Lucas Mann: http://www.lucasmann.com/ James and Lucas discuss:  The University of Iowa  HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell  Arundhati Roy  Amitava Kumar  James Baldwin  THE VILLAGER  Film Forum  THRONE by Kerry Howley  THE NEW YORKER  Roger Angell "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" by John Updike  David Halberstam  BLUETS by Maggie Nelson  THE LOVER by Marguerite Duras  THE SUICIDE INDEX by Joan Wickersham  SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE  Malcolm Gladwell  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts  The Kardashians  - Nathan McNamara: http://nathanscottmcnamara.com/ Nathan and James discuss:  PLOUGHSHARES  Johns Hopkins University  Vassar College  COFFEE HOUSE PRESS  SAMUEL JOHNSON'S ETERNAL RETURN by Michael Riker  DOROTHY, A PUBLISHING PROJECT   Megan McDowell Christina MacSweeney  Emma Ramadan  Riff Raff Bookstore  Michael Silverblatt  BOOKWORM  Annie Hartnett  THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS  Ellie Duke  Danielle Dutton   THE SHUTTERS by Ahmed Bouanani THE HOSPITAL by Ahmed Bouanani  NEW DIRECTIONS PRESS  COMEMADRE by Roque Larraquy Alejandra Pizarnik  THE POETRY FOUNDATION  Jeremy Lybarger  THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE: STORIES by Mariana Enriquez  FEVER DREAM by Samantha Schweblin  MY HEART HEMMED IN by Marie NDiaye  TWO LINES PRESS  THE BABYSITTER AT REST by Jen George  -  http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

In Episode 38 we talk again with Mike Miley, Vice President of the International David Foster Wallace Society and quiz kid extraordinaire. Topics include film, game shows, Oliver Stone, JFK assassination scoops, and hanging out with Michael Silverblatt.  Show Notes:  Smart Set – “Reading Wallace Reading” https://thesmartset.com/article08181401/   Medium – “Caught in the Bandana Trap” https://medium.com/just-words/caught-in-the-9fa2c864b76d   Medium – “The Eye of Sauron” https://medium.com/just-words/the-eye-of-sauron-d454ed83377a   Critique­ – “…And Starring David Foster Wallace as Himself: Performance and Persona in The Pale King” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00111619.2015.1028611?needAccess=true   Mike's Twitter: twitter.com/MikeCMiley  

Coconut Versus (Floricanto Press) This powerful and tempestuous coming-of- age novel follows a young man on the outside looking in, an interloper wherever he goes. Everyone calls Miguel Reyes a coconut, brown on the outside and white on the inside. Among his family in central California, he’s the too soft city-boy. In Arizona, he’s a brown boy in an upper-class, white neighborhood, with no real friends, while in Los Angeles, he’s a fake Mexican that speaks too good. Again, and again, Miguel finds himself seething at the injustice a young man feels at every turn of his adolescence. Then, in a moment, he must decide whether or not another man lives or dies. Praise for Coconut Versus “Daniel Ruiz, in taut and urgent prose, that often takes your breath away, (like a punch to your gut), reveals the often turbulent life of Miguel Reyes as he navigates his way from confused child to manhood. With a cast of characters ranging from fierce to loving to humorous, Ruiz has given us an essential bildungsroman befitting America in the 21st Century.”—Bruce Bauman, author of the novels And the Word Was and Broken Sleep “Coconut Versus is a coming of age story that brims with energy and originality as it travels across modern, millennial California. Daniel Ruiz uses his ample gifts as a writer and observer of his generation’s longings to spin tales of love, rage and self-knowledge that are intelligently and passionately told."—Héctor Tobar, author of The Barbarian Nurseries and Deep Down Dark Daniel Jose Ruiz is a graduate of the CalArts MFA program, and is a Professor of English at Los Angeles City College. Coconut Versus is his first novel. Bruce Bauman is the award-winning author of the novels And the Word Was and Broken Sleep. Michael Silverblatt, on Bookworm, has called Broken Sleep “funny, heartbreaking and beautiful.” Other reviewers have compared Bauman's work to Saul Bellow, Robert Stone, Thomas Pynchon and John Irving.  

JOBS: Petsitting, babysitting, Chick-fil-A, Moskatels, Movies n' Videos, package wrapping, rapping, library archives, Delta, University Art Gallery, library periodicals & microfiche, Starbucks, pet portraiture, office manager (office supplies!)...and now this. LINKS: Buy "I Must Be Living Twice" by Eileen Myles here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062389084/i-must-be-living-twice Learn more about Myles on her website. That's right here: http://www.eileenmyles.com Listen to her on KCRW's Bookworm w/ Michael Silverblatt here: https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/eileen-myles-i-must-be-living-twice

"I woke up at 12:30p.m. and sat on my bed. I emailed people and ate cereal and that took three hours because I took my time. When I finished I didn't know what to do so I emailed some more people." - tao lin LINKS: Buy "you are a little bit happier than i am" here: http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780976569237/you-are-a-little-bit-happier-than-i-am-.aspx More on Tao Lin with Michael Silverblatt here: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/tao-lin-taipei Info about my upcoming solo exhibition here: http://www.talleydunn.com Tao Lin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tao_lin Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/

 One of today’s greatest American novelists, bestselling author T.C. Boyle visits ALOUD to take audiences deep inside his electrifying, eco-visionary new novel. An epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, The Terranauts follows the high-pressured lives of eight scientists—four men and four women—closely monitored under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. With characteristic humor and sharp wit, Boyle plays out his real-life environmental concerns as he experiments with the future of humanity.Click here for photos from the program.

Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez  about the recent book by the late author. Harper Lee died today at the age of 89.

The "voice of NPR book reviews" takes a singular opportunity – the discussion of his own novel with KCRW's bookworm, Michael Silverblatt.

**NOTE** The LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. It will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast. On this week's show, Tom, Laurie, and Seth interview Michael Silverblatt, the host of Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio show featuring interviews with the world's best writers of literary fiction and poetry. Silverblatt talks about conceiving a show where "the author finally talks to someone who has read their work," and talks about his rigorous interviewing style and process, shares stories of some of his favorite guests — like David Foster Wallace and Joy Williams — and also talks about his childhood and his early love of musicals.

Edward St. Aubyn’s five-volume series of semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels are one of the most acclaimed fiction cycles in English literature. Michael Silverblatt talks with St. Aubyn about his first novel since completing his series, hailed for its satirizing of the English aristocracy. In Lost for Words, St. Aubyn employs his lethal dose of humor in a send-up of England’s premier literary prize and its controversial, eco-disastrous sponsor. St. Aubyn’s acid pen skewers the competing authors as well as the judges and corporate, political and media interests that influence such prizes.*Click here to see photos from the program!

As an interlude in our 2013 round-up series, Tom and I decided to talk about his recent trip to L.A., where he met with Michael Silverblatt of the amazing Bookworm, and about a couple of recent articles that have been making the rounds in social media and whatnot. Namely, we decided to talk a bit about George Packer's Amazon article in the New Yorker.

Colin Marshall sits down in West Hollywood with Michael Silverblatt, host of the literary interview program Bookworm from KCRW in Santa Monica since 1989. They discuss how he's managed to host a book show for so long "in Los Angeles, of all places;" the near-racist tradition of New York writers savaging Los Angeles in the thirties and forties; introducing the likes of Edward St. Aubyn to Angelenos and others well beyond; radio as a dreamlike "mad tea party," whether dreamt in one's car or at one's computer; the band Sparks as American humorists, the writes Krys Lee as an exponent of ethnic writing as both exotic and erotic, and how to recommend both without resorting to anything so uninteresting as opinion; being not a critic, and not a fan, but an omnivorous conversationalist; the lamentable rise of "patented hip taste;" how Terence Malick's Badlands drew him out to Los Angeles from the East Coast; the Angeleno phobia of cultural confrontation; Los Angeles' failure to insist upon or preserve its genius; not driving because you never learned versus not driving because you don't know how to get the money for a car; America as a "cavalcade of marvels;" and the importance of accepting and existing the confusion of an ungraspable whole, whether its the whole of a book, of a film, of an album, or of Los Angeles.

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Michael Silverblatt felt challenged when Sapphire's publisher mentioned that The Kid "might not be your kind of thing..."

A New York native, Michael Silverblatt graduated from the State University of New York in Buffalo and later took advanced courses at Johns Hopkins. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, and in 1989 created the literary talk show “Bookworm” for KCRW-FM. The show continues to air today.Norman Mailer has called Michael Silverblatt “the best reader in America.” Susan Sontag called him “a national treasure.” Joyce Carol Oates once called him the “reader writers dream about,” and his podcasts are so popular that New York’s independent bookstores describe a “Silverblatt ripple effect” on book sales.As a student, he came under the influence of such cutting-edge author-teachers as Donald Barthelme and John Barth; as a radio talk-show host, he learned to appreciate a much wider range of writing—making him, he hopes, “a person of ferocious compassion instead of ferocious intellect.”Silverblatt gave a talk on October 26, 2010, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

A conversation about reading, writing and radio with Michael Silverblatt, who has hosted KCRW's Bookworm, the beloved forum for the discussion of fiction and poetry on public radio, for twenty years. [Marketplace of Ideas home]

Lost Paradise (Grove) In this duel of interpretations, Dutch writer Nooteboom (who has been repeatedly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize) shows the whipper-snapper Michael Silverblatt that there are simpler, clearer, realer reasons for the angels in Lost Paradise than the over-interpreting Silverblatt wants to believe.

Michael Silverblatt flew to Dublin for the one hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day and night immortalized in James Joyce's Ulysses. He took the opportunity to talk with John Banville and poet Seamus Heaney...

Michael Silverblatt and a young Los Angeles writer, Chuck Wilson, talk with Pauline Kael about her book, Movie Love.

Michael Silverblatt speaks with Ian McEwan about his book, The Innocent, and John Banville about The Book of Evidence.

Michael Silverblatt speaks with Douglas Messerli, Editor in Chief of Sun & Moon Press, winner of the 1987 Carey-Thomas Award for Creative Publishing given yearly for the most imaginative publishing venture of the year. Michael begins by speaking with John F. Baker, Editor in Chief of Publishers Weekly, the sponsor of the award.