October 2009
3 posts
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Oprah likes Michael Silverblatt, too. →
To try to explain how Michael interacts with writers is, invariably, to fall short. But here are a few of my favorite moments: He said to poet Matthea Harvey that her mind was “like popcorn—there’s no stopping it.” He told Junot Díaz, “Oscar Wao is someone very much like me.” He asked Brad Gooch about gay spirituality as it related to Gooch’s biography of...
September 2009
6 posts
MS on Bookworm:
I came here as a reading geek. I wanted to talk week after week to writers who most spoke to me. But I realized very quickly that if I wanted listeners to try my books, I’d have to try theirs. It had to be a two-way street. And that’s what an interview is, too. An interview on the air is so much more than what gets said. You hear the laughter, the emotional flow. And it’s only then that the...
Oct. 1st edition of Bookworm. (tomorrow!) →
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive) This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what’s been happening in Mexican fiction over the last half-century. In this conversation with its editor, Álvaro Uribe, and Cristina Rivera-Garza, one of the writers whose work appears in the book, we uncover a cavalcade of styles and influences, as well as a host...
Sept. 24th edition of Bookworm →
Road Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics) Stephen Sondheim is right — his new musical, Roadshow, is not gloomy. Instead, it’s cheerful and bleak. But the road to cheerful bleakness was twisted and long. Sondheim and his collaborator, playwright John Weidman, discuss the many revisions of Roadshow, a musical that has evolved in an extraordinary way, and may yet become an...