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Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie Smith.

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73

i'm rereading consider the lobster right now for the 3rd time. what a delightful funny collection.

yeah, we can put that in the queue!

where is the reckoning I ordered???

why not in 18 minutes.

Wyatt Mason · Don’t like it? You don’t have to play: David Foster Wallace

once again, amused and enthralled by DFW. i'm rereading his essay on american grammar usage in his CONSIDER THE LOBSTER collection, which is deftly summarized at the start of this @lrb.co.uk review by WYATT MASON of DFW's OBLIVION.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

that's the best thing to do. I did a similar thing with Percival Everett's JAMES and rereading HUCK FINN.

really love beauty of the husband and slouching towards bethlehem.

throwing in some philosophy! i started revisiting Adorno...

Victoria Chang's collection THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING

Victoria Chang’s Correspondence with Grief In “Dear Memory,” Chang experiments with the grammar of loss, addressing letters to those who will never respond, and finding meaning in their silence.

one of my favorite new poets.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

love the go-between. "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

perhaps, the must-read of the year (or last year).

alright, faithful followers of literature, we're back to starting on march 1!
#Satantangotogether

catch up on your other readings!

what are you reading these days?

I just finished book 1 (of 7) of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME! a captivating book. crazy as it sounds, I think it's rereadable...

773 The Films of Rob Reiner (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Boo… In mid-December 2025, the world was shocked by the horrible and tragic news that beloved film director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer Reiner had been murde…

@jackewilson.bsky.social sky.social and Mike @literaturesc.bsky.social sky.social celebrate Rob Reiner's amazing run of indelible films in the 1980s and early 1990s, including a selection of their Top 10 favorite lines from Reiner's films. #films #robreiner

sure let's do march 1. I'm trying to finish a couple of rereads...
#satantango

Isn’t it romantic…to start Satantango on Feb. 14? ❤️

hahaha. let's do it!

Satantango WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book h...

And from New Directions, one of my favorite presses, no less...

#satantangotogether

www.ndbooks.com/book/satanta...

last day!
Day 125, Feb 2, Mon - p226 to THE END
#rachelcusktogether

THANK YOU everyone for reading along.

We will be starting #SatanTangoTogether either U.S. valentine's day feb 14 or march 1 depending on the people's schedules! what's your vote?

this is my 3rd time rereading it!

should we start on feb 14, valentine's day???

Hibou le Literature Supporter's review of A Fan's Notes (A Fan's Notes, #1) 4/5: My third (and I suspect, not final) time reading it. Is there a plot? There is worshipping and idolatry of the New York Giants and Frank Gifford and a lot of drinking, some teaching, and seductio...

kicking off this year with a bunch of rereads. my latest, the cult classic:

FREDERICK EXLEY'S A FAN'S NOTES
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

first satantango! starting march 1

there are 3 memoirs -- we could slow read that after Balzac!

penultimate day!
Day 124, Feb 1, Sun - p220 “I did, however, receive another call…” to p226 WHITE SPACE “…to live as an outlaw.”
#rachelcusktogether

Day 123, Jan 31, Sat - p214 “After the heat and light of outside…” to p220 “…the call didn’t come.”
#rachelcusktogether

Hibou le Literature Supporter's review of Kudos 5/5: Another 'together' read led by me on blusky. 18 weeks slow-reading (7 or so pages a day) Cusk's Outline Trilogy. By the time you're in the last book Kudos, you know what to expect when it comes t...

Couldn't help it. I read straight to the end! The leader abandons his army (or scouts ahead to the next read???)

#rachelcusktogether

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

YouTube video by MyGustavo70 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (soundtrack): from "On the Overgrown Path" by Leos Janacek

I loved this one too and the film with amazing music by Janacek, 'On an overgrown path' youtu.be/7QqsIT3LruY?...

Day 122, Jan 30, Fri - p210 “We had been walking downhill…” to p214 WHITE SPACE “…I heard Paola say.”
#rachelcusktogether

sorry, I was a day ahead!

Kudos by Rachel Cusk – a daringly truthful trilogy concludes Faye, the artful listening presence in Outline and Transit, is back – but this time there’s a self-consciousness to the narrative voice

"In doing so, Cusk not only joined the “autofiction” avant garde of Karl Ove Knausgaard and Sheila Heti but solved many problems particular to her own writing."

www.theguardian.com/books/2018/m...

#rachelcusktogether