Radio Hour: Part One with Bookworm's Michael Silverblatt
**NOTE** The LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. It will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast.\n\nOn this week's show, Tom, Laurie, and Seth interview Michael Silverblatt, the host of Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio show featuring interviews with the world's best writers of literary fiction and poetry. Silverblatt talks about conceiving a show where "the author finally talks to someone who has read their work," and talks about his rigorous interviewing style and process, shares stories of some of his favorite guests \u2014 like David Foster Wallace and Joy Williams \u2014 and also talks about his childhood and his early love of musicals.