His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan ...

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Silverblatt's 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, ...

ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: It's 1996, and an author named David Foster Wallace has just published a wiry, ambitious tome of a novel titled "Infinite Jest." He's on Bookworm to talk about it, and here's ...

A few stanzas from the end of Chaucer’s long poem “Troilus and Criseyde,” the author interrupts his story to indulge in a bit of reception anxiety. “Go, litel book,” he bids the manuscript that’s soon ...

The program included interviews with the likes of Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison.

Michael Silverblatt, who hosted KCRW’s “Bookworm” program for 33 years, has died after struggling with various health ...

Picture this: a dusty manuscript shoved into the back of a drawer, forgotten for years or even decades. The author has moved ...

In fact, Infinite Jest predicted such a state with its titular samizdat. In the most ludicrous plot, a terrorist gang of ...