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David Sedaris: Calypso
26 juli 2018 · 30 min
David Sedaris is hilarious but that’s just the obvious. He discusses the art of melancholy, and mortality, topics in his new book of humorous stories, Calypso.
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Joseph McBride with Nicola Lubitsch: How Did Lubitsch Do It?
19 juli 2018 · 30 min
Nicola Lubitsch joins film historian Joseph McBride to discuss her father, Ernst, and McBride’s book about him, How Did Lubitsch Do It?
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Presenting The Organist from McSweeney's
13 juli 2018 · 34 min
We share an episode of a KCRW podcast produced in collaboration with McSweeney's.
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Lauren Groff: Florida
12 juli 2018 · 30 min
Characters in Lauren Groff’s collection of stories, Florida, try to meet the challenges of staying alive while life becomes more and more difficult.
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A.M. Homes Days of Awe: Stories
5 juli 2018 · 30 min
In Days of Awe: Stories, A.M. Homes writes about characters who turn out not to be who they hoped to be, and unable to escape who they are.
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Rita Bullwinkel: Belly Up
28 juni 2018 · 30 min
Bewildered imagination finds a home in the stories of Rita Bullwinkel's Belly Up.
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Michael Ondaatje: Warlight (Part 2)
21 juni 2018 · 30 min
Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight alters the rules about how big a novel’s canvas can be; it gives the feeling of completeness without telling all the secrets.
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Michael Ondaatje: Warlight (Part 1)
14 juni 2018 · 30 min
Michael Ondaatje fully embraces the fun of storytelling in this miracle of a novel, Warlight.
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Mary Gaitskill: Somebody with a Little Hammer
7 juni 2018 · 30 min
Mary Gaitskill’s collection of essays, Somebody with a Little Hammer, explores prismatic perspectives on rich topics, including literature.
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Linda Spalding: A Reckoning
31 mei 2018 · 30 min
Linda Spalding’s novel, A Reckoning, based on her family history, describes past nightmares that trickle into today.
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Shauna Barbosa: Cape Verdean Blues
24 mei 2018 · 30 min
The poetry of Cape Verdean Blues is organic, melancholic, and gorgeous. Shauna Barbosa starts with feeling, shines with honesty, and questions everything.
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Joyce Carol Oates: A Book of American Martyrs
17 mei 2018 · 30 min
Joyce Carol Oates discusses A Book of American Martyrs, a novel about what women are going to make of the American dream.
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Leslie Jamison: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
10 mei 2018 · 30 min
Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath is a book about the nightmare of feeling not enough, Jamison travels all 360 degrees of wanting to be the best and the worst, and has a great struggle to live in the middle ground.
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Rachel Kushner: The Mars Room
3 mei 2018 · 30 min
Rachel Kushner discusses The Mars Room, a novel set in a women’s correctional facility, a dazzling novel full of surprising details that can’t be forgotten.
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Carol Muske-Dukes: Blue Rose
26 april 2018 · 30 min
Carol Muske-Dukes discusses her book, Blue Rose. The poetry is written at the highest level but it’s about daily life: poetry as life story.
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Christine Schutt: Pure Hollywood
19 april 2018 · 30 min
Christine Schutt says her writing takes place in a danger zone. In Pure Hollywood, one novella and ten stories, she writes beyond weird, at a level that both frightens and empowers.
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Junot Diaz: Islandborn
12 april 2018 · 30 min
Devastatingly beautiful, soulful, a fulfillment of a promise to his goddaughter, Junot Diaz’s Islandborn offers a new map into children’s books.
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Lynne Tillman: Men and Apparitions
5 april 2018 · 30 min
A novel trapped in the mind of a very unusual man. Lynne Tillman writes with wit that makes the reader dance.
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Sean Penn: Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff
29 maart 2018 · 30 min
A transcendent apocalyptic satire, an outrageous improvisation of a book, embedded with the rhythms of American prose, Sean Penn discusses his first novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.
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Roberta Allen: The Princess of Herself
22 maart 2018 · 30 min
Roberta Allen says every truth can work as fiction. She discusses writing into the essence of a story. The Princess of Herself is interconnected stories of familiar but monstrous people not normally written about.
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Ann Beattie and Richard Bausch: The Complete Stories of Peter Taylor
15 maart 2018 · 30 min
Two brilliant writers talk about a brilliant writer: Ann Beattie and Richard Bausch discuss the haunted dreamscapes of the short fiction of Peter Taylor.
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Mokhtar Alkhanshali and Dave Eggers: The Monk of Mokha
8 maart 2018 · 30 min
For The Monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers writes the story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali bridging the country of his ancestors with the country where he lives. This is a conversation about the fate of immigrant life in America.
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André Aciman: Call Me by Your Name / Enigma Variations
1 maart 2018 · 30 min
André Aciman takes the intensity, complexity, and variety of his Call Me by Your Name still further in his new novel, Enigma Variations.
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Scott McClanahan: The Sarah Book / Crapalachia: A Biography of Place
22 februari 2018 · 30 min
Scott McClanahan discusses two of his close-to- the-bone and personal novels: The Sarah Book and Crapalachia: A Biography of Place.
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Víctor Terán and David Shook: Like A New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry
15 februari 2018 · 30 min
Víctor Terán and David Shook discuss the music of Isthmus Zapotec and poetry translated for Like A New Sun.
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Matthew McIntosh: theMystery.doc
8 februari 2018 · 30 min
Matthew McIntosh’s theMystery.doc asks a reader to consider what a book is, while exploring how a book can be like life.
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Jane Gillette: The Trail of the Demon and Other Stories
1 februari 2018 · 30 min
Jane Gillette describes the wicked writing of her first book, The Trail of the Demon and Other Stories.
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Ursula LeGuin
25 januari 2018 · 29 min
Revisiting Ursula LeGuin, the immensely popular author who changed science fiction and fantasy for millions of readers. She died this month at the age of 88.
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Isabel Allende: In the Midst of Winter
18 januari 2018 · 30 min
Storytelling queen Isabel Allende wrote a time-crossing, culture-hopping chamber piece that gives faces to immigration during these dark times for literature, In the Midst of Winter.
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Chris Kraus: After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography
11 januari 2018 · 30 min
In her stunning After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography, Chris Kraus wrote not of theory but of writing, creativity, and the depth a writer has to go to form an identity.
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Joe Hagan: Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
4 januari 2018 · 30 min
In Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine, Joe Hagan explores the countercultural rise of the late-60s rock and roll teen society.
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Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé
28 december 2017 · 30 min
Morgan Parker says that the poems in her book There Are Things More Beautiful than Beyoncé take a stand against the clichés of the dominant culture.
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Anne Fadiman: The Wine Lover's Daughter
21 december 2017 · 30 min
Anne Fadiman discusses topics from The Wine Lover’s Daughter: wine, literature, and her father Clifton.
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William H. Gass Tribute
14 december 2017 · 30 min
The great novelist, essayist and prose stylist William H. Gass died last week at 93. This tribute show is composed of excerpts from previous Bookworm conversations with Gass.
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Charmaine Craig: Miss Burma
7 december 2017 · 30 min
A moody historical novel, Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig explores history as it is inscribed in the souls of a rather special Burmese family.
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Jennifer Egan: Manhattan Beach
30 november 2017 · 30 min
Without spoilers, we discuss the intricate surprises and complex modes of disclosure in Jennifer Egan's new novel Manhattan Beach.
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Wallace Shawn: Night Thoughts
23 november 2017 · 30 min
This show features a dramatic and emotional reading by writer/actor Wallace Shawn of an excerpt from Night Thoughts, his book-length essay. (REPEAT)
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Mark Danielewski: The Familiar, Volume 5
16 november 2017 · 30 min
The Familiar, Volume 5: Redwood, by Mark Danielewski, closes Season One of a serial novel imagined as a vast TV series.
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Sparks (Part II)
9 november 2017 · 30 min
The second conversation with brothers Ron and Russell Mael of the band Sparks, along with stripped-down versions of two songs from their new album Hippopotamus.
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Sparks (Part I)
2 november 2017 · 30 min
Sparks plays stripped-down acoustic versions of art rock songs off their new album Hippopotamus, along with a classic song, and the theme to Bookworm, Where Would We Be without Books.
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Eileen Myles: Afterglow (a dog memoir)
26 oktober 2017 · 30 min
Beloved writer Eileen Myles didn't make up the dog but she did make up Afterglow (a dog memoir).
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Kazuo Ishiguro
19 oktober 2017 · 30 min
We sample 25 years of Bookworm conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Prize Laureate for literature.
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Stephen Greenblatt: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
12 oktober 2017 · 30 min
Following his National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize celebrated The Swerve, in the elaborately readable The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt explores reasons why the story of Genesis has seized the imagination.
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Nicole Krauss: Forest Dark
5 oktober 2017 · 30 min
Nicole Krauss took a risk by writing about two protagonists who never meet. Krauss says she let herself follow the characters of Forest Dark into the unknown.
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Andrew Sean Greer: Less
28 september 2017 · 30 min
In his novel Less, Andrew Sean Greer discusses filterless writing and the idea of getting what you want in a world bent on not giving you what you want.
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Matthew Klam: Who Is Rich?
21 september 2017 · 30 min
Matthew Klam reveals that his novel Who is Rich? ponders the meaning of wealth. Is richness having a big bank account or is it being happy with your lot in life?
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Mark Z. Danielewski: The Familiar
14 september 2017 · 29 min
Mark Danielewski says he wants to give words to animals, to plants, to the waves of the ocean. His vast serial novel The Familiar begins with a young girl rescuing a cat.
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George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part II)
7 september 2017 · 29 min
Known for the outrageous comedy of his acclaimed short stories, George Saunders says that daring to write this novel about grief, loss and the journey of the soul was like jumping off a cliff. [REPEAT]
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George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I)
31 augustus 2017 · 29 min
Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes." [REPEAT] Lees meer
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Danzy Senna: New People
24 augustus 2017 · 30 min
In her novel New People, Danzy Senna relishes kicking political correctness to the curb. She believes that irony and humor are more effective than earnestness when writing about race and gender