ISBN 9780804756716 | 0804756716 Textbooks - "Off Mike A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life" by Margaret Atwood Ian McEwan Louise Erdrich Amy Tan Isabel Allende Jane SMILEY Joan Didion Francis Ford Coppola Amos Oz Umberto Eco Michael Chabon Edward P Jones Jonathan Safran Foer Russell Banks David Lodge Philip Roth Barbara Kingsolver Alice Walker Art Spiegelman Gay Talese Kazuo Ishiguro Paul Auster Larry David Don Delillo Tony Kushner Michael Krasny VS Naipaul Edna OBrien Maya Angelou Frances Mayes Ha Jin Wole Soyinka Cynthia Ozick Maxine Hong Kingston TC Boyle David Mamet Edward ALBEE August Wilson EL DOCTOROW Khaled Hosseini Colson Whitehead Reynolds Price Tom Stoppard Krasny Michael with contributions from Joyce Carol Oates Harvey Pekar and AM Homes

Authors: Margaret Atwood - Ian McEwan - Louise Erdrich - Amy Tan - Isabel Allende - Jane SMILEY - J…
ISBN 10: 0804756716
ISBN 13: 9780804756716
Edition: First Edition
Release: September 12, 2007
Format: Hardcover (344 pages)
List Price: $24.95
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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.In a mix of memoir and reportage, Krasny takes readers inside his world. He 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. They will 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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