1. Larry Bensky was an American literary and political journalist with experience in both print and broadcast media, as well as a teacher and political activist.
18 Facts About Larry Bensky
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Larry Bensky is known for his work with Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, and for the nationally-broadcast hearings he anchored for the Pacifica network.
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Larry Bensky worked at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune after college, while attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota.
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Larry Bensky then worked as an editor at Random House, before moving to France, where he was Paris editor of The Paris Review from 1964 to 1966.
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Larry Bensky then returned to New York as an editor of The New York Times Sunday Book Review, and wrote daily book reviews.
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Larry Bensky served as station manager for KPFA from 1974 to 1977.
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Larry Bensky produced the PBS documentary, "Nicaragua: These Same Hands" in 1980.
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Larry Bensky was anchor for Pacifica's extensive coverage of the post-2004 election controversy in Ohio, as well as several Congressional hearings about the misuse of executive power in the Bush administration.
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Larry Bensky retired as host of a weekly two-hour radio talk show, Sunday Salon, originating at KPFA in Berkeley.
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Larry Bensky wrote for The Nation, magazine, and was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review.
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Larry Bensky won a career achievement award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Golden Gadfly award from Media Alliance.
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Larry Bensky taught media criticism and analysis at Berkeley City College and political science at CSUEB.
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Larry Bensky was a political activist from the 1960s onwards, working with nuclear disarmament and anti-war groups in New York City, Paris, and San Francisco during the Vietnam War.
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Larry Bensky co-designed and wrote numerous successful direct mail appeals for modern progressive organizations, including Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the United Farm Workers.
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Larry Bensky was a devout pacifist and an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
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Larry Bensky was producer and host of "Radio Proust," a web site which he developed as a fellow of the Bard College Center.
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Larry Bensky developed and was teaching classes about Proust for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Larry Bensky died in Berkeley on May 19,2024, at the age of 87.