{"id":1118,"date":"2009-04-20T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/the-visions-of-robert-silverberg.html"},"modified":"2009-04-20T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:46:00","slug":"the-visions-of-robert-silverberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/the-visions-of-robert-silverberg.html","title":{"rendered":"The Visions of Robert Silverberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Se06nNifNQI\/AAAAAAAAAQM\/Zma9XKsdQdk\/s1600-h\/dying.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Se06nNifNQI\/AAAAAAAAAQM\/Zma9XKsdQdk\/s320\/dying.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Se03SQitJ6I\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/43g9Q7txWDk\/s1600-h\/RS.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Se03SQitJ6I\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/43g9Q7txWDk\/s320\/RS.jpeg\"><\/a>THE term &#8220;literary science-fiction writer&#8221; is nearly as awkward as renaming comic books &#8220;graphic novels.&#8221; but for some figures it&#8217;s important to understanding, as it is in the case of robert silverberg, author of &#8220;nightwings,&#8221; &#8220;the book of skulls,&#8221; the valentine series of fantasy novels and the darker-than-dark philip-roth-gone-telepath novel from the early &#8217;70s, &#8220;dying inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i had the great honor to meet silverberg up at his medieval style home in oakland recently, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-robert-silverberg21-2009apr21,0,542888.story\">HERE<\/a> is the ensuing LATimes story. was surprised by silverberg&#8217;s presence &#8212; he is a kind of dignified old dude, gore vidal in the body of a straight jewish libertarian. his idols are h.g. wells and edmund burke.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>glad to report that my rereading of &#8220;dying inside,&#8221; which was just reissued and which i had not read since i was a teenager, confirmed my earlier ardor for it. michael chabon and jonathan lethem, who i interviewed for the story, share my fondness for the novel. the esteemed pulitzer winning critic michael dirda just penned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/08\/AR2009040803663.html\">this<\/a> wonderful washpost review.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>interested parties should come see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/festivalofbooks\/program_panels_sat.html\">my panel<\/a> at latimes bookfest this saturday, where i interview silverberg alongside SF legends harry harrison and joe haldeman.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.locusmag.com\">Locus magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE term &#8220;literary science-fiction writer&#8221; is nearly as awkward as renaming comic books &#8220;graphic novels.&#8221; but for some figures it&#8217;s important to understanding, as it is in the case of robert silverberg, author of &#8220;nightwings,&#8221; &#8220;the book of skulls,&#8221; the valentine series of fantasy novels and the darker-than-dark philip-roth-gone-telepath novel from the early &#8217;70s, &#8220;dying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,35,205,207,137,307,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-70s","7":"category-books","8":"category-lethem","9":"category-oakland","10":"category-science-fiction","11":"category-silverberg","12":"category-west-coast","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}