KCRW's Bookworm Podcasts

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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. Primary Format : Public Radio Language : English Also Listed as: City : Santa Monica State/Province : CA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of KCRW's Bookworm Podcasts Methings.com listings of KCRW's Bookworm Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of KCRW's Bookworm Dennis Cooper Ugly Man(Harper Collins)Although we've followed the career ofDennis Copperfrom the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a new influence?the master director of French film comedy, Jacques Tati. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Angel's Game(Doubleday)Spanish writerCarlos Ruiz Zafónhas attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs(Knopf)Lorrie Moorehas written three collections of short stories and two rather short novels. Now, after eleven years of work, she has published a longer novel and survived to tell the tale... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick Laird Glover's Mistake(Viking)In this novel of love, manipulation and deception,Nick Lairdattempts one of the trickiest strategies in the novelist's tool kit. He structures a book so that readers come to understand things the characters remain blind to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman Road Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics)Stephen Sondheimis right ? his new musical,Roadshow, is not gloomy. Sondheim and his collaborator, playwrightJohn Weidman, discuss the many revisions of the musical that has evolved in an extraordinary way, and may yet become an American classic... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction(Dalkey Archive) This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what?s been happening in Mexican fiction over the last half-century. In this conversation with its editor,Álvaro Uribe, andCristina Rivera-Garza, one of the writers whose work appears in the book, we uncover a cavalcade of styles and influences, as well as a host of writers whose names will be new to American readers.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clancy Martin How to Sell(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Clancy Martin's first novel reads like a piece of sleaze, but it turnsout ? surprise! ? to be a philosophical novel about the problems ofappearance and reality... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin(Random House)Darkened by intimations of 9/11,Column McCann's generous extravaganza of a novelbrings together the lives of strangers who witness a high-wire artistdancing between the two World Trade Center towers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reif Larsen The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet(Penguin Press)Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glen David Gold Sunnyside(Knopf)What a charming raconteurGlen David Goldis, with his anecdotes about the movies, theories about identity and celebrity, and knowledge of World War I... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geoff Dyer Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi(Pantheon)Geoff Dyeron the secrets that structure his new novel (whichmight, on the surface, seem like two novellas).... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Dickman All-American Poem(American Poetry Review)Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winnerMatthew Dickmanwrites emotional and accessible poetry... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Gooch Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor(Little, Brown)While we take a mini-tour of Flannery O'Connor's life and writing, biographerBrad Goochdescribes his difficulties in gaining access to the author's innerlife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthea Harvey Modern Life(Graywolf Press)Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides,Matthea Harvey'spoems careen into the unknown... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wells Tower Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)Wells Toweris the most talked-about new story writer to emerge on theliterary scene. This conversation focuses on the weird details he usesto illuminate a mostly conventional narrative arc... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Wray Lowboy(Farrar, Straus& Giroux)John Wray's novel about a schizophrenic boy's quest for sexand/or love flirts violently with the thriller form... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Waldman Manatee /Humanity(Penguin Poets)Anne Waldmanguides us through this book-length poetry-and-prosemeditation on endangered species by describing an initiation ceremonydesigned to instill a deeper sense of compassion.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Krusoe Erased  (Tin House Books)In this wild and woolly conversation,Jim Krusoereveals thathis zany, unpredictable, hilarity-inspiring novels are, well,descriptions of the human condition (at least as how he sees it). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website E. L. Doctorow Homer& Langley (Random House)In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers ? one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor ? Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eduardo Galeano Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone(Nation Books)Eduardo Galeanohas written a history of the world in brief chapters, each one devoted to an iconic incident... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website