As host of LA radio station KCRW’s Bookworm, Michael Silverblatt interviews the most well known writers of our time—but it is his empathetic reading of the writers’ work that has made the radio program, now in its 20th year, the premier literary forum in America
Nearly 30 years on from his masterpiece The Gift, author Lewis Hyde turns in his sharp new book, Common As Air , a lively commentary on the present state of copyright and the public domain in America. BOMBlog’s Chris Wallace spoke with Hyde about information, art and the ownership of the intangible.