Bookworm

By KCRW

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

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The podcast currently has 1,656 episodes available.

Bookworm episodes:

October 10, 2002 Dennis Cooper
My Loose Thread (Canongate Books)In his most vulnerable and emotionally accessible novel, Dennis Cooper explores the mind of a boy who is like one of the Columbine killers. He talks about the world the boy imagines-and our compassion enlarges as the boy-s consciousness shuts down.
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30min
October 03, 2002 Rick Moody: The Black Veil
Rick Moody explores his dark ancestry, which includes the Puritan minister who inspired a famous Hawthorne story...
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30min
September 26, 2002 Francine Prose: The Lives of Muses
Francine Prose's The Lives of the Muses is a series of "brief lives" of women who inspired famous men: Alice of Alice in Wonderland, Yoko Ono, Mrs. Salvador Dali, the pre-Raphaelites...
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30min
September 19, 2002 Dave Eggers
McSweeney-s Books Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) has invested in his beliefs and started up a press. He publishes the popular -lit-mag- McSweeney-s and a whole line of books by authors he admires. We explore and evaluate this unusual inventory.
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30min
September 12, 2002 Oliver Sacks: Oaxaca Journal
Wherever Oliver Sacks goes, the nature of consciousness is his subject...
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30min
September 05, 2002 Charles Simic
Night Picnic: Poems (Harcourt)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic examines his work under
the lens of political terror and the subsequent experience of
immigration...

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30min
August 29, 2002 Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones (Little Brown)
In Alice Sebold's eerie and fascinating first novel, a murdered girl reveals a double mystery: the nature of heaven (from where she narrates her story) and the nature of earth (where her family remembers her and her murderer remains uncaught).
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30min
August 22, 2002 Michael Frayn
Spies (Metropolitan Books) An elderly man reviews his childhood, discovering more than he could have possibly known as a child. Michael Frayn shows us that while children may play at being spies, adults are actual spies who explore the past and unearth secrets that alter their own identities.
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30min
August 15, 2002 Oscar Hijuelos: A Simple Habana Melody
Oscar Hijuelos gives us a sentimental rumba-and a return to his first inspiration: Cuban music.
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30min
August 08, 2002 Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer's literary debut commanded lavish praise and immediate popularity.
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30min

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