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Daphne Merkin: “22 Minutes of Unconditional Love”
23 juli 2020 · 30 min
Daphne Merkin discusses what normative means, the concept of a normal looking life, and her new novel, “22 Minutes of Unconditional Love”.
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Zadie Smith: “On Beauty”
16 juli 2020 · 30 min
From the archives: obliquely about Zadie Smith's "On Beauty", this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is.
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Alex Halberstadt: "Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning"
9 juli 2020 · 30 min
History, autobiography, travelogue—a hybrid form—"Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning", by Alex Halberst.
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Scott Spencer: “An Ocean Without a Shore”
2 juli 2020 · 30 min
Scott Spencer’s new novel, “An Ocean Without a Shore,” is about a life seeped in unfulfilled desires.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya: Senselessness
18 juni 2020 · 30 min
The co-producer of Bookworm, Shawn Michael Sullivan, was able to rebroadcast one of his favorite shows, between Michael Silverblatt and Horacio Castellanos Moya, regarding Senselessness.
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Fowzia Karimi: Above Us the Milky Way
11 juni 2020 · 30 min
Fowzia Karimi speaks about the art of the novel, and designing Above Us the Milky Way.
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Mark Z. Danielewski: The Little Blue Kite
4 juni 2020 · 30 min
Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Little Blue Kite is a generous and big-hearted children’s book about creating a spacious mind, with room for others.
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Edited by André Naffis-Sahely The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature
28 mei 2020 · 30 min
Anthologist André Naffis-Sahely says he provided a historical perspective to The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature.
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Victoria Chang: Love, Love (Part 2)
21 mei 2020 · 30 min
Victoria Chang discusses Love, Love, her children’s novel written in verse—poetry written for children.
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Victoria Chang: Obit (Part 1)
14 mei 2020 · 30 min
Victoria Chang’s Obit is a poetry book about the impact of death on the living.
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Benjamin Moser: Sontag: Her Life and Work
7 mei 2020 · 30 min
Benjamin Moser recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography Sontag: Her Life and Work. Lees meer
In this show from the archives, he talks about Susan Sontag‘s ideology: reading more books, going to more plays, traveling more, learning more, taking learning seriously, and taking culture seriously.
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Daniel Kehlmann: Tyll
30 april 2020 · 29 min
Daniel Kehlmann describes his new novel, Tyll, as dark, frightening, and murky—in a good way.
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Rob Doyle: Threshold
23 april 2020 · 30 min
Youthful nihilism, contradictory impulses, preferences and desires catch up with Rob Doyle in his explicitly autobiographical novel Threshold.
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Ariana Reines: A Sand Book
16 april 2020 · 30 min
Ariana Reines discusses her A Sand Book poetry being centered around a theme of hiding: running away and trying to escape.
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Charles North: Everything and Other Poems
9 april 2020 · 30 min
Charles North describes Everything and Other Poems as “messy poetry” without the formal demands of his earlier work.
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Harry Dodge: My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing
2 april 2020 · 30 min
Harry Dodge’s My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing shifts its scale from the cosmos to viruses.
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Rebecca Solnit: Recollections of My Nonexistence
26 maart 2020 · 30 min
Recollections of My Nonexistence is a personal, cultural, political, and journalistic hybrid narrative about the formative years in the life of Rebecca Solnit.
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Stephen Wright: Processed Cheese
19 maart 2020 · 30 min
Stephen Wright’s Processed Cheese finds hilarity in the tragedy of contemporary life.
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Jenny Offill: Weather
12 maart 2020 · 30 min
Jenny Offill’s Weather is a book about people living very much in our times.
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Steven Sater: Alice By Heart
5 maart 2020 · 30 min
Steven Sater’s Alice By Heart wants to reaffirm the power of the imagination, and inspire readers to reignite the wonder in themselves.
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Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown
27 februari 2020 · 30 min
Charles Yu’s "Interior Chinatown" has won the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. In February 2020, Charles Yu spoke with KCRW's Michael Silverblatt in a live edition of Bookworm.
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Translators Suzanne Jill Levine, Jessica Powell, and Katie Lateef-Jan: The Promise and Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo
20 februari 2020 · 30 min
A discovery readers have been waiting for, more Silvina Ocampo finally translated into English: The Promise and Forgotten Journey.
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Tobias Wolff: This Boy’s Life
13 februari 2020 · 30 min
One of the first books within a huge movement that restored respectability to memoirs, This Boy’s Life celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, and Tobias Wolff celebrates thirty years since being on Bookworm.
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Fanny Howe: Love and I
6 februari 2020 · 30 min
Love and I, poems by Fanny Howe, about love, the failure of love, and the transformation of love over the years.
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Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
30 januari 2020 · 30 min
Garth Greenwell discusses seeking human truths by writing into an abyss, and his new novel Cleanness.
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Daniel Mendelsohn: Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
23 januari 2020 · 30 min
Daniel Mendelsohn’s Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones is an uncommon collection of essays that intertwine the personal with the intellectual and critical.
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Jonathan Blum: The Usual Uncertainties
16 januari 2020 · 30 min
Jonathan Blum wrote characters with open destinies, in stories with open endings, for his new book of short stories, The Usual Uncertainties.
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Ben Lerner: The Topeka School
9 januari 2020 · 30 min
Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04 find their synthesis in The Topeka School, the third in his Hegelian trilogy.
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André Aciman: Find Me
2 januari 2020 · 30 min
In André Aciman’s Find Me, strokes of luck are destiny.
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Deborah Eisenberg: Your Duck Is My Duck
20 december 2019 · 30 min
Again Deborah Eisenberg demonstrates herself as a masterful and electric writer, in her new collection of seven stories, Your Duck Is My Duck.
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Adina Hoffman on 'Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures'
19 december 2019 · 30 min
Adina Hoffman’s "Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures" is about a man of multitudes.
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Chris Ware: Rusty Brown
12 december 2019 · 30 min
Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown depicts life the way it is: jam packed with details, the closer you look the ever more there is.
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Lawrence Weschler: And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
5 december 2019 · 30 min
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler is a book that can only be itself.
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Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
22 november 2019 · 30 min
From the archives, Ocean Vuong speaks of leaving his thumbprint on his new novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Alternate modes of storytelling are discussed, as are narratives without intrinsic conflict. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who doesn’t read English; it is about finding joy in innovative and creative survival. Lees meer
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Lynda Barry: Making Comics
21 november 2019 · 30 min
Lynda Barry’s Making Comics is a how-to graphic novel guide for people who gave up on drawing.
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Jeanette Winterson Frankissstein: A Love Story
14 november 2019 · 30 min
Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story is about time travel and body travel.
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Lynda Barry and Chris Ware: Making Comics and Rusty Brown
7 november 2019 · 30 min
Lynda Barry and Chris Ware discuss the culture of comics, and their new books, Making Comics and Rusty Brown.
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John Freeman and Robin Coste Lewis Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on California
31 oktober 2019 · 30 min
John Freeman and Robin Coste Lewis discuss Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on California.
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Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
24 oktober 2019 · 30 min
In tribute, from the archives, a conversation with Harold Bloom (1930-2019) in his apartment to talk about his book, The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible. A discussion officially about the great King James translation of the Old and New Testaments. But when you talk with Harold Bloom, you talk about everything—politics, poetry, teaching, aging, reading and ultimately, respect. Lees meer
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Benjamin Moser: Sontag: Her Life and Work
17 oktober 2019 · 30 min
Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work is interested in the writing and ideas of Susan Sontag.
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Salman Rushdie: Quichotte (Part 2)
10 oktober 2019 · 30 min
Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte is explored as a modern take on the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, with the opera Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet a strong influence.
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Salman Rushdie: Quichotte (Part 1)
3 oktober 2019 · 30 min
Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte depicts the pleasures of fiction.
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Emma Donoghue: Akin
26 september 2019 · 30 min
The structure of Emma Donoghue’s Akin leads the reader through one surprise after another.
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Cathleen Schine: The Grammarians
19 september 2019 · 30 min
Language-loving twin sisters discover themselves united by passion but separated by needs in The Grammarians, the eleventh book by Cathleen Schine.
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Mary Ruefle: Dunce
12 september 2019 · 30 min
Dunce, by Mary Ruefle, finds meaning everywhere.
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Katya Apekina: The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
5 september 2019 · 30 min
Katya Apekina’s novel The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish has a dark sense of humor, and an interest in the soul.
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Sarah Rose Etter: The Book of X
29 augustus 2019 · 30 min
Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X belongs to a literary conversation about the grotesque and surreal.
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Peter Orner: Maggie Brown & Others
22 augustus 2019 · 30 min
Characters with DNA, blood and soul populate forty three stories and a novella by Peter Orner: Maggie Brown & Others.
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Toni Morrison: Beloved
15 augustus 2019 · 30 min
From the archives, a highly resonate conversation with Toni Morrison about transfiguring love, as portrayed in her novel Beloved.
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Toni Morrison Tribute
8 augustus 2019 · 30 min
Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison passed away this week at 88 years of age. Bookworm is rebroadcasting a 2009 conversation with her about her novel, A Mercy.*