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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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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 ]

Peter Carey

His Illegal Self(Knopf)The excitement ofPeter Carey's new novel is rendered through aspecific stylistic choice: He integrates two wildly different voicesinto the sentences, creating a vibrant stereo-effect. The result isamazing--the novel's action seems to be taking place about six inchesfrom your face....

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[ Thu, 01 May 2008 10:42:00 EDT ]

Ariana Reines

Coeur de Lion(Mal-o-mar);The Cow(Fence Books)This astonishing young poet—still in her twenties—is surely destined to be one of the crucial voices of her generation....

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[ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:45:00 EDT ]

Colm Toibin

Mothers and Sons: Stories (Scribner) Colm T--ib--n candidly describes the inspirations for the stories in his first collection. Sometimes a landscape is enough to trigger a story, sometimes an anecdote or a bit of family lore. ...

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[ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:30:00 +0000 ]

Colm Toibin

Mothers and Sons: Stories(Scribner)Colm Tóibíncandidly describes the inspirations for the stories in his first collection. Sometimes a landscape is enough to trigger a story, sometimes an anecdote or a bit of family lore....

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[ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:30:00 EDT ]

Anne Enright

The Gathering (Grove) In Anne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor. ...

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[ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:30:00 +0000 ]

Anne Enright

The Gathering(Grove)InAnne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor....

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[ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:30:00 EDT ]

Arnon Grunberg

The Jewish Messiah (Penguin) Unsettling, profane and goofy, Arnon Grunberg---s novel takes politically incorrect risks with contemporary Jewish culture. ...

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[ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:30:00 +0000 ]

Arnon Grunberg

The Jewish Messiah(Penguin)Unsettling, profane and goofy,Arnon Grunberg’s novel takes politically incorrect risks with contemporary Jewish culture....

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[ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:09:00 EDT ]

William T. Vollman

Riding Toward Everywhere (Ecco)William Vollman decided to spend as much time as possible viewing the stars from the flatbed of a moving train. He---s a ---fauxbo--- not a hobo, and he movingly describes his need to find freedom by hopping a train---without any destination in mind. ...

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[ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:30:00 +0000 ]

William T. Vollman

Riding Toward Everywhere(Ecco)William Vollmandecided to spend as much time as possible viewing the stars from the flatbed of a moving train. He’s a “fauxbo” not a hobo, and he movingly describes his need to find freedom by hopping a train–without any destination in mind....

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[ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:30:00 EDT ]

David Rieff

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir (Simon & Schuster)David Rieff accompanied his mother, Susan Sontag, through the medical ordeals that led to her death. We explore the death of this great writer, a woman who resisted consolation and maintained---to her last days---an enormous appetite for life. ...

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[ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:30:00 +0000 ]

David Rieff

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir(Simon& Schuster)David Rieffaccompanied his mother, Susan Sontag, through the medical ordeals that led to her death. We explore the death of this great writer, a woman who resisted consolation and maintained—to her last days—an enormous appetite for life....

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[ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:17:00 EDT ]

Geraldine Brooks

People of the Book (Viking)The art of detection unravels the secrets of the Sarajevo Haggadah. What does the miraculous survival of this medieval codex tell us about the survival of both culture and history. ...

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[ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:30:00 +0000 ]

Geraldine Brooks

People of the Book(Viking)The art of detection unravels the secrets of the Sarajevo Haggadah. What does the miraculous survival of this medieval codex tell us about the survival of both culture and history?...

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[ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:04:00 EDT ]

Lewis Hyde

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)How does the creative person function in a market culture. In the 25 years since The Gift was first published, this question has become increasingly more difficult to answer. ...

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[ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Lewis Hyde

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World(Vintage)How does the creative person function in a market culture? In the 25 years sinceThe Giftwas first published, this question has become increasingly more difficult to answer....

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[ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:45:00 EDT ]

Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson

Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) and Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press) and Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press) Critic David Lehman has called the New York School of Poetry "the Last Avant Garde." Poet and critic Maggie Nelson suggests it might better be considered "one of the first gay avant gardes," since its original members included Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and James Schuyler. We examine the role of women in the New York School: Barbara...

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[ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Robert Hass

Time and Materials: Poems 1997---2005 (Ecco) If it can still be said that a poet can have a humanizing influence on his culture, Robert Hass is such a poet. Here, as we discuss the poems in his National Book Award-winning collection, the beautiful, moving humanity of Hass' voice emerges, making us wish we were better people. ...

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[ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Cees Nooteboom

Lost Paradise (Grove) In this duel of interpretations, Dutch writer Nooteboom (who has been repeatedly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize) shows the whipper-snapper Michael Silverblatt that there are simpler, clearer, realer reasons for the angels in Lost Paradise than the over-interpreting Silverblatt wants to believe. ...

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[ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Oliver Sacks

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf) Oliver Sacks explores the brain's affinity for music by examining the extraordinary ways our brains adapt in response to musical aberrations. Sack's wisdom and deep love of music are palpable in this vibrant conversation. ...

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[ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Russell Banks

The Reserve (Harper)Russell Banks, one of the great living American novelists, uses the 1930's novel of passion and betrayal -- with its allied seductions, madness, and adultery -- to explore America's class system; the relationships between art, politics and wealth; and the despoiling of the American Landscape. (An abridged version of this interview will be heard live on KCRW due to our semi-annual subscription drive. It will be archived in its entirety online.) ...

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[ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Edmund White

Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel (Ecco)Here's a literary historical enigma: Did Stephen Crane attempt to write a gay companion piece to his Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Literary rumor says he tried. At any rate, now Edmund White has written it for him. It's Edmund White on Hotel de Dream and the "underground" history of classic American fiction. ...

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[ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

James McCourt

Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey (Turtle Point)This big, hilarious and joyful book has been twenty-five years in the making. The best description of it came from Fran Lebowitz who called it "The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization set to music." James McCourt describes this first volume (of three) of his masterpiece-in-progress. ...

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[ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

David Plante

ABC (Pantheon) In this novel, a series of unlinked personal, familial and global catastrophes leads unrelated victims to search for order. Mysteriously, the "order" they discover is alphabetical order. So many cultures begin their alphabets with ABC. Why. What revelation is concealed in the alphabet's code. ...

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[ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Ann Patchett

Run (Harper Collins)The family in Ann Patchett's Run unites rich with poor, black with white. The novel is a thriller---but the mystery at its heart is the mystery of spiritual grace. Has this vision been shaped by Patchett's own personal history. ...

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[ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:30:00 +0000 ]

George Saunders

The Braindead Megaphone (Riverhead)This conversation provides a mini-course in short-story writing, Saunders-style and explores the construction of short fiction from the ground up. ...

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[ Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Carol Muske-Dukes

Channeling Mark Twain (Random House)This novel revives the belief that poetry has a close connection to personal and political liberation....

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[ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Steve Erickson

Zeroville (Europa Editions)This breakthrough novel is about the The Movies---not the movie business, not the wheels and deals---but The Movies themselves....

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[ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:30:00 +0000 ]

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)We take the occasion of the publication of Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Bad Girl, to air this previously unheard interview in which the great Peruvian novelist describes the effects of "El Boom" ---- magic realism and its relatives -- on the literature of Latin America. (This interview will not air live on KCRW as it will be pre-empted by special programming.)...

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[ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:30:00 +0000 ]

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