KCRW's Bookworm show

KCRW's Bookworm

Summary: A 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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Podcasts:

 Alain Mabanckou: Letter to Jimmy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Letter to Jimmy is Congolese author Alain Mabanckou?s book-length letter to James Baldwin. 

 Richard Ford: Let Me Be Frank with You | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Frank Bascombe, who's been making appearances since Ford's breakthrough novel, appears again in Richard Ford's latest novel.

 Richard Ford: Let Me Be Frank with You | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Frank Bascombe, who's been making appearances since Ford's breakthrough novel, appears again in Richard Ford's latest novel.

 Lydia Millet: Mermaids in Paradise | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Lydia Millet's new novel is fast-moving and funny -- except when it isn't. 

 Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Colm Tóibín discusses his deeply personal story of a provincial Irishwoman who sets aside motherhood to grapple with grief. 

 Colm Tóibín: Nora Webster | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Colm Tóibín discusses his deeply personal story of a provincial Irishwoman who sets aside motherhood to grapple with grief. 

 Todd Colby: Splash State | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What is a Splash state? Poet Todd Colby tells us a splash state is the golden moment when his writing hits its ecstatic stride. 

 Hilton Als: White Girls | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Hilton Als' first book in 14 years is a series of essays that defy easy categorization. His "white girls" are neither necessarily girls nor white?.

 Goli Taraghi: The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Iranian author Goli Taraghi's recent collection translates many of her short stories of the past forty years into English for the first time.

 Marilynne Robsinson: Lila | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Bookworm is joined by Marilynne Robinson to discuss Lila ( Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), the latest in a series of novels set in the backdrop of the dustbowl years. 

 Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Acclaimed novelist Martin Amis returns to discuss The Zone of Interest, a mordant exploration of love in a place that is meant  to crush the soul in a concentration camp. 

 Robert Duncan and Jess | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A conversation about the artist Jess and poet Robert Duncan who were the center of an underground art scene in San Francisco.

 Robert Duncan and Jess | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

A conversation about the artist Jess and poet Robert Duncan who were the center of an underground art scene in San Francisco.

 Yiyun Li: Kinder than Solitude | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Originally from Beijing, Yiyun Li thought she would be a scientist. Writing in her non-native English, she addresses the emotional brutality of our time.

 Francoise Mouly, Ian Falconer, and Neil Gaiman: Kid's Books | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What makes a good kid?s book?

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