Michael Silverblatt, longtime KCRW ‘Bookworm’ host dies in LA home at 73

Michael Silverblatt, who hosted KCRW’s “Bookworm” program for 33 years, has died after struggling with various health challenges in recent years, the station announced. He was 73.

Silverblatt died Saturday at his Los Angeles home.

“Bookworm,” which aired from 1989 to 2022, featured weekly 30 minute interviews with authors, poets and other literary figures including the likes of Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison for what were described as “intellectual...