Three weeks into his book
tour, Michael Krasny’s Off Mike
makes it to the Bay Area bestseller list! Krasny has been making appearances in
bookstores throughout the Bay Area to packed audiences of the KQED show Forum’s
fans, curious to get to know the man behind the mike, the literary radio host they
are used to encountering on the air waves on their commutes every morning.
The book takes readers inside
Krasny’s world—his coming of age during the heady times of the 1960s with their
blend of the civil rights movement, political activism, and sexual
experimentation. Krasny talks of a strong desire to become a novelist in the
footsteps of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth; and then discovering his real talent as a communicator—a deft ability to draw others
out as an interlocutor and host of KQED Radio's Forum, which is rated as one of
the most popular NPR shows today. He is a maestro for educated radio
listeners, who prefer their discourse high and civil; he is a writer's
interviewer.