Indeed. Obviously the key is that he doesn't pose what he says as a question, but as more of a statement for the interviewee to riff off. Exploding or at the very least subverting the traditional Q-A format is Michael Silverblatt's forte.
the intro where she recounts DFWallace saying that he wished Silverblatt could adopt him is so sad, cuz beneath his razor sharp wit maybe Wallace could never shut up the writer/voice in his head? Silverblatt likely has as much or more head traffic, he somehow has tempered it or it was mercifully tempered for him by_____, what, soul?
voice(s) in my head is so intrusive, so unhelpful, but i read & listen to Eckhart Tolle, & am facing that voice (those voices) from a growing new (but ancient) perspective of a feeling presence, one that we all have within our reach & can access...
I first came to know Silverblatt through his DFW interview. Much like Silverblatt would read every book an author wrote and influential books author’s read, I found myself trying to get acquainted with the background details of DFW’s life-fortunately, Silverblatt is utterly fascinating in his own right
i dont mean to be offtopic but does any of you know a tool to get back into an instagram account?? I stupidly lost my password. I love any tricks you can give me!
I love Michael. It would be so great to have all of his interviews and talks together in a file saved to a hard drive. Maybe I'll undertake that at some point
A very frank and from the heart talk. No tough persona, no BS, no propoganda. Just plain and down to earth honesty. Our politicians and elites could learn a lot from this man, but I am guessing they do not have the moral core to even understand it.
oh yeah, our egos, egoic minds, especially on stage, get all caught up in giving a good performance, to imagine how we are seen, but when all is said & done, the ego is not your amigo...or anyones, never has been never will, people can dress it up, make it behave better, smarter, funnier, but if that's all we got we are worse than empty..
really great, insightful interview, as well as questions. I can't begin to imagine how you could think it's your job to save an entire medium (the novel) like DFW did, as related by Silverblatt here. Being burnt out with unachieved potential as he said Donald was, is something very familiar though
i resonated especially with the part where his parents were begging him to take the civil service exams to becomea postman. My aunt is always trying to get me to take the test to become a sanitation worker
0:47:20 "I'm not at all sure that the world exists, and I'd rather think that it didn't. At this stage, I'd rather think that this was a nightmare that I was having. And not ... believe that others were being subjected to it." Disbelieving that so many others should exist only to suffer so terribly ... this is surely his sentiment. That it can be held as a belief is unclear. It's not even clear whether solipsism itself is coherent. To be _selflessly_ solipsistic is to occupy a logically impossible emotional state. And yet, thus he spoke.
A mental disorder that seems to come to those that are isolated for long periods. There is a possibility that the people that he feels are suffering so terribly are perhaps not suffering as much as he believes. People certainly aren't living in his nightmare, if nothing else, we are all living in our own nightmares. And to paraphrase Herodotus if we all came to meet and exchange one another's nightmare we'd all be content reject all others and to leave with our own.
@@josh-rz3uq the question of what it means, in the wake of Darwinian naturalism, for an organ or biological structure to be dysfunctional is quite complex and contested. i won't let you get away with talking smack about my auditory acuity
i think it was dave eggers paraphrasing zadie smith abt "ideal readers" & from there, what constitutes a genius. and she said she believed a genius was someone who was an ideal reader for many authors. i tend to agree, & using this 'definition' would have to unequivocally label silverblatt a genius i could be butchering how this sentiment was delivered as it was from a Great American stories collection (edited & intro by eggers) from circa 2006 which i lent to a friend in the same time frame & have never seen again, but that idea of ideal readers & genius has stuck with me ever since
How rare… a man whose refuge from society was reading found his place in the world, and then loved for being just who he is.
Remarkable story 👏
30:47 I love that he stops the sentence to hear the bell 💙
present, & u noticed..
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His interviews with DFW are super impressive. He had the best questions.
Indeed. Obviously the key is that he doesn't pose what he says as a question, but as more of a statement for the interviewee to riff off. Exploding or at the very least subverting the traditional Q-A format is Michael Silverblatt's forte.
the intro where she recounts DFWallace saying that he wished Silverblatt could adopt him is so sad,
cuz beneath his razor sharp wit maybe Wallace could never shut up the writer/voice in his head?
Silverblatt likely has as much or more head traffic, he somehow has tempered it or it was mercifully tempered for him by_____, what, soul?
voice(s) in my head is so intrusive, so unhelpful, but i read & listen to Eckhart Tolle, &
am facing that voice (those voices) from a growing new (but ancient) perspective of a feeling presence, one that we all have within our reach & can access...
I first came to know Silverblatt through his DFW interview. Much like Silverblatt would read every book an author wrote and influential books author’s read, I found myself trying to get acquainted with the background details of DFW’s life-fortunately, Silverblatt is utterly fascinating in his own right
I wholeheartedly agree! You could tell that Silverblatt and Wallace were on the same level, both on a literary level and also emotionally.
Life changing talk. Keep calm, read, think, meet other people through books.
May Michael live to be 100
And 20
How wonderful it is to have the consolation of tears when nothing is wrong.
00:43:28
Seeing such a friendly-spirited and passionate soul speak from his heart makes it difficult not to shed a tear out of sheer inspiration.
Listen to his bookworms religiously. National treasure.
This is beautiful! Michael is an inspiration, and he has done immense things for the world of literature.
i dont mean to be offtopic but does any of you know a tool to get back into an instagram account??
I stupidly lost my password. I love any tricks you can give me!
@Franco Bryant Instablaster =)
Michael Silverblatt is an amazing person. Passionate, intelligent, great taste.
Any one can be a writer right?
@@_aworldthatspoke950no!
Fantastic talk. Such humility, such humanity.
Wonderful man, sharp mind, soft heart. I would have wanted to be his friend when everybody else was laughing at him at school!
thank u , cuz even though only humans can be so un-human,
we still can find hearts,
but it takes one to know one, ya?
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I love Michael. It would be so great to have all of his interviews and talks together in a file saved to a hard drive. Maybe I'll undertake that at some point
Beautiful!!
Thank you..
A very frank and from the heart talk. No tough persona, no BS, no propoganda. Just plain and down to earth honesty. Our politicians and elites could learn a lot from this man, but I am guessing they do not have the moral core to even understand it.
oh yeah, our egos, egoic minds, especially on stage, get all caught up in giving a good performance, to imagine how we are seen, but when all is said & done, the ego is not your amigo...or anyones, never has been never will,
people can dress it up, make it behave better, smarter, funnier, but if that's all we got we are worse than empty..
man with a heart of gold
I adore bookworms! He is so charming and accommodating. Lovely man ❤
Just one of the best reader-interviewers out there
really great, insightful interview, as well as questions. I can't begin to imagine how you could think it's your job to save an entire medium (the novel) like DFW did, as related by Silverblatt here. Being burnt out with unachieved potential as he said Donald was, is something very familiar though
Starts at 6:06
@BOHEMIA A humble man, too. A quality that seems to be in short supply these days.
Legend!
i resonated especially with the part where his parents were begging him to take the civil service exams to becomea postman. My aunt is always trying to get me to take the test to become a sanitation worker
I would love to listen to an audiobook by him.
0:47:20 "I'm not at all sure that the world exists, and I'd rather think that it didn't. At this stage, I'd rather think that this was a nightmare that I was having. And not ... believe that others were being subjected to it."
Disbelieving that so many others should exist only to suffer so terribly ... this is surely his sentiment. That it can be held as a belief is unclear. It's not even clear whether solipsism itself is coherent. To be _selflessly_ solipsistic is to occupy a logically impossible emotional state.
And yet, thus he spoke.
Daniel Steel goddamn
A mental disorder that seems to come to those that are isolated for long periods. There is a possibility that the people that he feels are suffering so terribly are perhaps not suffering as much as he believes. People certainly aren't living in his nightmare, if nothing else, we are all living in our own nightmares. And to paraphrase Herodotus if we all came to meet and exchange one another's nightmare we'd all be content reject all others and to leave with our own.
What a Soul
We like to be eccentric.
"That's the best time!" (43:11)
"It was eternity"
47:09 idealism
Goddamn intros are so fucking long and annoying. The host really just wants to say “I can read and write well, too, and look how cultured I am, too!”
Love you Michael but youre wrong about Go Dog Go.
That introduction was nauseating.
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Silverblatt looks like a Silverblatt.
Sounds like one, too.
It's ironic how people claim to be intelligent without having touched a single day of their life any science concerning predictions.
aka the only sciences
Well I'm glad you're not claiming to be intelligent when you write a sentence like that.
Is this like that propaganda phrase being thrown around during the plandemic, “follow the science?”
HUEHUEHUE
++++++++++++++
His whiny voice is unbearable.
his voice is superb
@@hectorramage1308 Maybe if you don't have functioning ears.
@@josh-rz3uq the question of what it means, in the wake of Darwinian naturalism, for an organ or biological structure to be dysfunctional is quite complex and contested. i won't let you get away with talking smack about my auditory acuity
@@hectorramage1308 Hahahaha
Is this a self-referential comment?
i think it was dave eggers paraphrasing zadie smith abt "ideal readers" & from there, what constitutes a genius. and she said she believed a genius was someone who was an ideal reader for many authors. i tend to agree, & using this 'definition' would have to unequivocally label silverblatt a genius
i could be butchering how this sentiment was delivered as it was from a Great American stories collection (edited & intro by eggers) from circa 2006 which i lent to a friend in the same time frame & have never seen again, but that idea of ideal readers & genius has stuck with me ever since
27:30 this line stuck with me
Whatta pud