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KCRW's Bookworm

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must for the serious reader, "Bookworm" showcases writers of fiction and poetry - the established, new or emerging - all interviewed with insight and precision by the show's host and guiding spirit, Michael Silverblatt.


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John Haskell
Out of My Skin(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)An existential novel (think Camus’The Stranger) LA-style. Whena celebrity impersonator trains the hero in the art of impersonation, identity confusion ensues......

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[ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:52:59 EDT ]


Rae Armantrout
Versed(Wesleyan University Press)Rae Armantrouthas been associated with the Language-centeredpoets of the eighties, a group often accused of overly cerebral poetryderived from theory. Now, her work is found in the most widely readmagazines that publish poetry......

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[ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:17 EDT ]


Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Mirror in the Well(Dalkey Archive)Micheline Marcom's works squeeze themselves between uncomfortable alternatives: Is her new novel,The Mirror in the Well, erotic or pornographic?...

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[ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:32:24 EDT ]


Sparks: The Art of the Popular Song
Kimono My House (Island Def Jam);Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil' Beethoven)After years of yearning, Bookworm talks with his favorite rock band about the art of writing pop songs.  Join us in this celebration of their 21st album,Exotic Creatures of the Deep....

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[ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:06:14 EDT ]


Azar Nafisi
Things I've Been Silent About: Memories(Random House)Azar Nafisiis one of the most powerful advocates literature has. After writingReading Lolita in Tehran,her memoir about reading forbidden books in a repressive culture, shehas taken on a new source of repression—the family. ...

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[ Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:45:42 EDT ]


Toni Morrison, Part II
A Mercy(Knopf)In this second half of our two-part interview withToni Morrison, the conversation continues in an attempt to discover the way a novel is built....

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[ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:15:52 EDT ]


Toni Morrison, Part I
A Mercy(Knopf)In this first of two conversations with Nobel laureateToni Morrison, we explore the backgrounds of her novel,A Mercy....

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[ Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:07:57 EDT ]


Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Ms. Hempel Chronicles(Harcourt)What is a middle-school teacher? Is Ms. Hempel the old-maid meanie weremember fearing in childhood? Or is she, as she believes, a barely-out-of-college young woman on the threshold of life?...

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[ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:49:24 EST ]


Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Ms. Hempel Chronicles(Harcourt)What is a middle-school teacher? Is Ms. Hempel the old-maid meanie weremember fearing in childhood? Or is she, as she believes, a barely-out-of-college young woman on the threshold of life?...

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[ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:49:24 EDT ]


Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)WithSea of Poppies, a trilogy begins! Few know that the opium that fueled the Opium Wars was grown and processed in India......

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[ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:33:00 EST ]


Marilynne Robinson, Part II
Home(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Marilynne Robinson's recent novels concern two ministers andtheir families. Here, we discuss her most-troubled character, JackBoughton, a man who would have been called a ne'er-do-well when wordslike ne'er-do-well were common......

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[ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST ]


Marilynne Robinson, Part II
Home(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Marilynne Robinson's recent novels concern two ministers andtheir families. Here, we discuss her most-troubled character, JackBoughton, a man who would have been called a ne'er-do-well when wordslike ne'er-do-well were common......

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[ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST ]


Marilynne Robinson, Part I
Home(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Marilynne Robinsonhad not published a novel in twenty years when she wroteGilead, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. How peculiar, interesting and lovely that she should follow it so quickly withHome......

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[ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:58:00 EST ]


Marilynne Robinson, Part I
Home(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Marilynne Robinsonhad not published a novel in twenty years when she wroteGilead, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. How peculiar, interesting and lovely that she should follow it so quickly withHome......

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[ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:58:00 EST ]


An American Bookworm in Paris, Part V
Jerk, a play, from a story byDennis Cooper, directed byGisèle VienneOur series closes with American writerDennis Cooper, who livesand writes in Paris. His work is believed to continue the Frenchlineage of poète maudits (outlaw poets) a tradition that includes Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Sade....

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[ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:08:00 EST ]


An American Bookworm in Paris, Part V
Jerk, a play, from a story byDennis Cooper, directed byGisèle VienneOur series closes with American writerDennis Cooper, who livesand writes in Paris. His work is believed to continue the Frenchlineage of poète maudits (outlaw poets) a tradition that includes Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Sade....

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[ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:08:00 EST ]


Jonathan Carroll
The Ghost in Love(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Although he would never want us to say so,Jonathan Carroll's novels are like metaphysical self-help books for the supernaturally inclined....

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[ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:16:00 EST ]


Jonathan Carroll
The Ghost in Love(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Although he would never want us to say so,Jonathan Carroll's novels are like metaphysical self-help books for the supernaturally inclined....

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[ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:16:00 EST ]


David Foster Wallace
Web exclusive:The terrible and sad impact ofDavid Foster Wallace's suicide caused us to want to remember him as he first appeared in the KCRW studios, fresh from the publication of his breakthrough novel,Infinite Jest. He was brilliant and charming—and his death is an enormous loss to American literature....

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[ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:30:00 EST ]


David Foster Wallace
Web exclusive:The terrible and sad impact ofDavid Foster Wallace's suicide caused us to want to remember him as he first appeared in the KCRW studios, fresh from the publication of his breakthrough novel,Infinite Jest. He was brilliant and charming—and his death is an enormous loss to American literature....

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[ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:30:00 EST ]


Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates(Riverhead)What brought the indomitableSarah Vowellto write a book about the Puritans? A couple of Thanksgiving episodes ofThe Brady BunchandHappy Days, to be sure, but also......

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[ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:30:00 EST ]


Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates(Riverhead)What brought the indomitableSarah Vowellto write a book about the Puritans? A couple of Thanksgiving episodes ofThe Brady BunchandHappy Days, to be sure, but also......

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[ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:30:00 EST ]


An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
Grégoire BouillierThe Mystery Guest: An Account(Farrar Straus& Giroux) andReport on Myself(Houghton Mifflin)Olivier CadiotColonel Zoo( Green Integer)Marc CholodenkoMordechai Schamz(Dalkey Archive)Finally at ease in Paris, the Bookworm encounters three Frenchnovelists and attempts to navigate the tangle of philosophy, artifice,intertextuality and hilarity that exemplifies the art of the new Frenchnovel.Note: More installments of anAmerican Bookworm in Pariswill air over the next few months...

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[ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:46:00 EST ]


An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV
Grégoire BouillierThe Mystery Guest: An Account(Farrar Straus& Giroux) andReport on Myself(Houghton Mifflin)Olivier CadiotColonel Zoo( Green Integer)Marc CholodenkoMordechai Schamz(Dalkey Archive)Finally at ease in Paris, the Bookworm encounters three Frenchnovelists and attempts to navigate the tangle of philosophy, artifice,intertextuality and hilarity that exemplifies the art of the new Frenchnovel.Note: More installments of anAmerican Bookworm in Pariswill air over the next few months...

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[ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:46:00 EST ]


Diane Johnson
Lulu in Marrakech(Dutton)Here's a conversation about ambivalence, ambiguity and judgment in acomic or satiric novel. Usually, we would know exactly where the authorstands, but not withDiane Johnson......

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[ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST ]


Diane Johnson
Lulu in Marrakech(Dutton)Here's a conversation about ambivalence, ambiguity and judgment in acomic or satiric novel. Usually, we would know exactly where the authorstands, but not withDiane Johnson......

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[ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST ]


Francine Prose
Goldengrove(Harper)Francine Proseis full of surprises in speaking of her newestnovel. It's narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl whose sister hasdrowned. It looks like a conventionalcoming-of-age-through-emotional-hardship book......

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[ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:30:00 EST ]


Francine Prose
Goldengrove(Harper)Francine Proseis full of surprises in speaking of her newestnovel. It's narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl whose sister hasdrowned. It looks like a conventionalcoming-of-age-through-emotional-hardship book......

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[ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:30:00 EST ]


James Wood
How Fiction Works(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)This conversation is characterized by indirection. CriticJames Woodseems to be responding to accusations made against him by other reviewers......

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[ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:07:00 EST ]


Jim Krusoe
Girl Factory(Tin House)InJim Krusoe's strange and funny new novel, six women are being preserved in acidophilus in the basement of a frozen yogurt shop. The innocent hero's attempts to save these kidnapped beauties are disastrous....

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[ Thu, 08 May 2008 11:30:00 EDT ]

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