How wonderful it is to have the consolation of tears when nothing is wrong.

@njdawgs1

2 ай бұрын

00:43:28

30:47 I love that he stops the sentence to hear the bell 💙

@mindsigh4

Жыл бұрын

present, & u noticed.. 🙏💜🕯️🤸☀️🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊️🔔

Listen to his bookworms religiously. National treasure.

His interviews with DFW are super impressive. He had the best questions.

@MartianManhunter1987

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mindsigh4

Жыл бұрын

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?

@mindsigh4

Жыл бұрын

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...

@AlphaNumeric123

10 ай бұрын

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

@devil_pls

17 сағат бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree! You could tell that Silverblatt and Wallace were on the same level, both on a literary level and also emotionally.

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 👏

May Michael live to be 100

@scoon2117

2 ай бұрын

And 20

Life changing talk. Keep calm, read, think, meet other people through books.

Wonderful man, sharp mind, soft heart. I would have wanted to be his friend when everybody else was laughing at him at school!

@mindsigh4

Жыл бұрын

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? 🙏💜🕯️🤸☀️🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊️🔔

Seeing such a friendly-spirited and passionate soul speak from his heart makes it difficult not to shed a tear out of sheer inspiration.

Just one of the best reader-interviewers out there

Michael Silverblatt is an amazing person. Passionate, intelligent, great taste.

@_aworldthatspoke950

3 жыл бұрын

Any one can be a writer right?

@kdot78

Жыл бұрын

​@@_aworldthatspoke950no!

This is beautiful! Michael is an inspiration, and he has done immense things for the world of literature.

@francobryant5768

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@philipbrady5914

2 жыл бұрын

@Franco Bryant Instablaster =)

Fantastic talk. Such humility, such humanity.

man with a heart of gold

@BOHEMIA A humble man, too. A quality that seems to be in short supply these days.

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.

@mindsigh4

Жыл бұрын

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

Starts at 6:06

Beautiful!! Thank you..

Legend!

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.

@cola3173

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Steel goddamn

@knpstrr

2 жыл бұрын

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.

"It was eternity"

"That's the best time!" (43:11)

47:09 idealism

Love you Michael but youre wrong about Go Dog Go.

HUEHUEHUE

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Silverblatt looks like a Silverblatt.

@ryanand154

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like one, too.

++++++++++++++

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!”

That introduction was nauseating.

It's ironic how people claim to be intelligent without having touched a single day of their life any science concerning predictions.

@sardinhunt

3 жыл бұрын

aka the only sciences

@wgaule

3 жыл бұрын

Well I'm glad you're not claiming to be intelligent when you write a sentence like that.

@electrodynamicorb6548

2 жыл бұрын

Is this like that propaganda phrase being thrown around during the plandemic, “follow the science?”

His whiny voice is unbearable.

@hectorramage1308

4 жыл бұрын

his voice is superb

@josh-rz3uq

4 жыл бұрын

@@hectorramage1308 Maybe if you don't have functioning ears.

@hectorramage1308

4 жыл бұрын

​@@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

@josh-rz3uq

4 жыл бұрын

@@hectorramage1308 Hahahaha

@Solfonny

Жыл бұрын

Is this a self-referential comment?

27:30 this line stuck with me

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

Whatta pud