His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan ...

Michael Silverblatt, who hosted KCRW’s “Bookworm” program for 33 years, has died after struggling with various health ...

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 ...

ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: It's 1996, and an author named David Foster Wallace has just published a wiry, ambitious tome of a novel titled "Infinite Jest." He's on Bookworm to talk about it, and here's ...

Referring to someone as a “worm” usually expresses a pretty low opinion of that individual. Betrayed at work? Your foe could be a worm. Relationship gone sour? Perhaps you were dating a worm. Yet ...