Michael Silverblatt
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Michael Silverblatt is the host of Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio program about books and literature, originating from Los Angeles
public radio station KCRW
. A graduate of SUNY Buffalo, Silverblatt created the half-hour interview show in 1989 to share his love of literature, poetry and fiction with the widest possible audience. Underwritten by the Lannan Foundation, Bookworm has been heard in over a hundred markets coast to coast over the years.
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public radio station KCRW
KCRW
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. A graduate of SUNY Buffalo, Silverblatt created the half-hour interview show in 1989 to share his love of literature, poetry and fiction with the widest possible audience. Underwritten by the Lannan Foundation, Bookworm has been heard in over a hundred markets coast to coast over the years.
Notable guests
With over 17 years of shows aired 52 weeks a year, Bookworm has built up a sizable archive that have included some of the most important writers in the United States and the world. This is just a small sampling of the many interviews Silverblatt has conducted with the players in the world of literature.- John BarthJohn BarthJohn Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...
Air date: March 9, 2006 - David Foster WallaceDavid Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
Air date: March 2, 2006 - Salman Rushdie Air date: November 10, 2005
- Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
Air date: October 13, 2005 - Umberto EcoUmberto EcoUmberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
Air date: August 25, 2005 - Susan SontagSusan SontagSusan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...
Air date: February 3, 2005 - W. G. SebaldW. G. SebaldW. G. Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature...
Air date: December 6, 2001