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Off mike

a memoir of talk radio and literary life

By Krasny, Michael

Publishers Summary:
"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 Saul Bellow and Philip Roth and of 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 - telling of his coming of age during the heady 1960s and vividly describing his journey from a life as a student of literature to that of a struggling novelist, an educator, and - somewhat accidentally - a radio host. Krasny recounts the polarizing transformation of talk radio, comparing his early days at KGO commercial radio to his current role at NPR, where he keeps his San Francisco-based show, Forum, animated and politically balanced."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

978-0-80475-671-6

Publisher

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford General Books, c2008.