#michael silverblatt

[withnailrules]

Michael Silverblatt, host of the weekly public radio show “Bookworm,” uses the term “literary desire” to describe the attraction that comes with seeing a stranger reading your favorite book or author. “When I was a teenager waiting in line for a film showing at the Museum of Modern Art and someone was carrying a book I loved, I would start to have fantasies about being best friends or lovers with that person,” he said.

[icannotbewhoiwish]

[nedison]

Sparkstember Day 13 revisits my favorite quotation from The Sparks Brothers documentary. Now I of course realize that Jane didn't sing on Drunk, but their outfits on the Cool Places sleeve begged for alpine glockenspiel treatment!

[litafficionado]

“The great children-bookwriter named William Steig. What I love about him, I loved it when I'd my five-six-year-old reading his book...he doesn't condescend to children. He uses this very complex vocabulary, sometimes you've to look up for words. And children are learning words from scratch, why should they be given “easy words”? They learn all the words equally, why not give them a large vocabulary? It's not like a one-syllable word is more difficult or easier than a three- or four- syllable word. Why not? They love all the words you can give them. Seems to me that...it's not just about the literacy. It's about the complexity of the language, not being admitted...We think we've to give children...we condescend to them. We don't understand they've a much better memory system than we have and they could be learning thousands of words when we give them just a few hundred. As a result, they would be better readers of our poetry later on.” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation with Michael Silverblatt

[parts-of-me-unravelling]

[litafficionado]

“I believe that your first reading of the book is your introduction to the book. The second reading is the first reading. The third reading is the dream come true where you’re so familiar with the book that it’s like hearing from a friend, that you, by now, really can read this book with depth, with passion, with an understanding that the first time you read it, you were often misunderstanding the intention of the writer. You were seeing the battleground but not the sides. The forest for the trees is the usual metaphor.” -Michael Silverblatt, in an interview

[queenslandsoutherngothic]

Oh my god!!!! It was fucking Michael Silverblatt who introduced Dennis to the person who gave him the details on George's suicide!!!!!! His life is so stupid

[kammartinez]

You’ve Done It Again, Michael | Jynne Dilling

Even as the pace of work life quickened exponentially across the next two decades, email inboxes overflowing, media outlets proliferating an