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KQED Radio's Michael Krasny is one of the country's leading
interviewers of literary luminaries, a maestro for educated
listeners who prefer their discourse high and civil. He is a
writer's interviewer.
But it didn't start out that way.
In "Off Mike," Krasny, host of one of public radio's most popular
and intellectually compelling programs, talks of his strong desire
to become a novelist in the footsteps of Bellow and Philip Roth,
and then discovering his real talent as a communicator--a deft
ability to draw others out as an interlocutor. Krasny remarks that,
"Trying to meld life into art as I read and interpreted and taught
and wrote about writers, I went on to talk and talk and talk with
writers until I had interviewed more writers perhaps than anyone
ever has or will or should. I was on the road. My own road to
literary Damascus. More than ever, I wanted to live a life that
could answer Bellow's primary question: How should a good man
live."
In a mix of memoir and reportage, Krasny takes readers inside his
world--his coming of age during the heady times of the 1960s with
their blend of the civil rights movement and political activism, to
the vivid description of his journey from a student of literature
to a struggling novelist to an educator and--somewhat
accidentally--a radio host. Krasny gives an account of the
polarizing transformation of talk radio, from his early days at KGO
commercial radio, through to his current role at NPR, where he
manages to keep the flow of talk in his San Francisco based show
animated and politically balanced.
"Forum" fans and lovers of literature will be riveted by the
insightful and amusing vignettes and behind the scenes accounts.
Theywill get a taste of the sharp commentary from his encounters
with panels of experts, and interviews with cultural and political
personalities as well as writers.
KQED Radio's Michael Krasny is one of the country's leading
interviewers of literary luminaries, a maestro for educated
listeners who prefer their discourse high and civil. He is a
writer's interviewer.
But it didn't start out that way.
In "Off Mike," Krasny, host of one of public radio's most popular
and intellectually compelling programs, talks of his strong desire
to become a novelist in the footsteps of Bellow and Philip Roth,
and then discovering his real talent as a communicator--a deft
ability to draw others out as an interlocutor. Krasny remarks that,
"Trying to meld life into art as I read and interpreted and taught
and wrote about writers, I went on to talk and talk and talk with
writers until I had interviewed more writers perhaps than anyone
ever has or will or should. I was on the road. My own road to
literary Damascus. More than ever, I wanted to live a life that
could answer Bellow's primary question: How should a good man
live."
In a mix of memoir and reportage, Krasny takes readers inside his
world--his coming of age during the heady times of the 1960s with
their blend of the civil rights movement and political activism, to
the vivid description of his journey from a student of literature
to a struggling novelist to an educator and--somewhat
accidentally--a radio host. Krasny gives an account of the
polarizing transformation of talk radio, from his early days at KGO
commercial radio, through to his current role at NPR, where he
manages to keep the flow of talk in his San Francisco based show
animated and politically balanced.
"Forum" fans and lovers of literature will be riveted by the
insightful and amusing vignettes and behind the scenes accounts.
Theywill get a taste of the sharp commentary from his encounters
with panels of experts, and interviews with cultural and political
personalities as well as writers.
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