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:

 William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part II) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

William T. Vollmann has authored a wide array of works of nonfiction as well as fiction. Who is this literary chameleon, and where is his life?s work going?

 William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part I) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Vollmann leads us to the “wall of ill” that separates life from death. We dissect Vollmann’s opening remarks to the reader, brimful of images both dark and sweet.

 William T. Vollmann: Last Stories and Other Stories (Part I) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Vollmann leads us to the ?wall of ill? that separates life from death. We dissect Vollmann?s opening remarks to the reader, brimful of images both dark and sweet.

 Lynne Tillman: What Would Lynne Tillman Do? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Tillman says a writer shouldn?t be ahead of one?s time but ?of? one?s time. She wishes to open doors, break down barriers, and make us aware of how thoughts are formed.

 Edward St. Aubyn: Lost For Words | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

St. Aubyn?s novel parodies the upsurge of interest in literary prizes: what do these prizes have to do with literature, and are the books that win ones we should read?

 Francine Prose: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Prose’s protagonist, Lou Villars, is based on the athlete and Gestapo interrogator Violette Morris, who was photographed with her lover in a Parisian nightclub in 1932.

 Francine Prose: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Prose?s protagonist, Lou Villars, is based on the athlete and Gestapo interrogator Violette Morris, who was photographed with her lover in a Parisian nightclub in 1932.

 Alice Notley: Negativity's Kiss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The heroine of Alice Notley's noir epic poem is named Ines. This is short for "inessential," which is what Notley says the poet is, and, really, what we all are.

 Alice Notley: Negativity's Kiss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The heroine of Alice Notley's noir epic poem is named Ines. This is short for "inessential," which is what Notley says the poet is, and, really, what we all are.

 Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Struggle (Part II) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Knausgaard?s third volume focuses on childhood. He says what he knows of people he knows from books. He continues in this tradition of telling with the written word.

 Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Struggle (Part I) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Reflecting on his autobiographical novels, Knausgaard says literature should be about life; in writing, he attempts to find meaning within the banality of the everyday.

 Michael Carroll: Little Reef, and Edmund White: Inside a Pearl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

An exciting first for Bookworm, recently married literary-couple Michael Carroll and Edmund White join us for a double-interview.

 Michael Carroll: Little Reef, and Edmund White: Inside a Pearl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

An exciting first for Bookworm, recently married literary-couple Michael Carroll and Edmund White join us for a double-interview.

 László Krasznahorkai: Seiobo There Below | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Do we have a need for a connection with heaven and hell? Krasznahorkai's novel is a valuation of human life seen from heaven and hell through the eyes of a Taoist goddess.

 Lydia Davis: Can't and Won't | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Lydia Davis' observations are crystallized on the page in a way that departs from conversational speech. We discuss the relationship between conversation and written word.

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