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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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Gary Indiana
The Shanghai Gesture(Two Dollar Radio)Out of fantasias of the past (Fu Manchu novels, exotic Hollywood films,documents of "friendly" imperialism from the twenties to the forties),Gary Indianaconcocts the nightmare present ofThe Shanghai Gesture.....

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[ Thu, 14 May 2009 17:50:07 EDT ]


Elizabeth Alexander
Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration(Graywolf);American Sublime(Graywolf)WhenElizabeth Alexanderpresented Barack Obama's inauguralpoem, few of us had considered that in the history of the United Statesthere had been only three previous inaugural poets......

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[ Thu, 07 May 2009 18:10:31 EDT ]


Yusef Komunyakaa
Warhorses: Poems(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hearKomunyakaa'svoice as he reads his poetry. These poems are about love and warsimultaneously, traumatic upheavals that may often be conjoined in thispoet's vision of life....

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[ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:10:13 EDT ]


Joanna Scott
Follow Me(Little, Brown)It has been said that life is like a river, and the river in this noveltwists and turns, changes direction and may even be inhabited by riverfairies......

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[ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:46:02 EDT ]


Abdellah Taia
Salvation Army(Semiotext(e))InAbdellahTaïa's family and in his native country, homosexuality is surrounded bysilence. All sorts of behaviors are tolerated if they are not spoken of, an intolerable circumstance for a writer......

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[ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:20 EDT ]


T.C. Boyle
The Women(Viking)This richly layered conversation withT.C. Boylecenters on the subjects of art and arrogance.The Womenis a biographical novel, a fiction derived from the life of Frank LloydWright, focused particularly on Wright's up-and-down experiences withwomen....

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[ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:30:00 EDT ]


A Whitman Tribute
Eamon Grennan:Matter of Fact(Graywolf)Major Jackson:Hoops(Norton)Pattiann Rogers:Wayfare(Penguin)Three poets join us on Bookworm to celebrate Walt Whitman. They read fromLeaves of Grass,describe Whitman's influence on their work, read their own poems, and,in general, paint a raucous, friendly, informal portrait of the GoodGray Poet— America's greatest....

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[ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:27:10 EDT ]


Robin Romm
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks(Scribner)Fact and fiction.Robin Rommhas written a book of short stories and now a memoir arising from one central event: her mother’s gradual death by cancer......

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[ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:55:15 EDT ]


Frank Bidart, Part II
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)ForFrank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body... (Part Iof this interview aired March 12.)...

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[ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:37:00 EDT ]


Frank Bidart, Part I
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)The word most frequently used to describeFrank Bidart’s poetry is “intense.” (Part IIof this interview airs on March 19.)...

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[ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:06:09 EDT ]


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 ]

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