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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.
UPCOMING SHOWS
A tribute to the great (and virtually unknown) Swiss writer Robert Walser, who
influenced Kafka and inspired Hermann Hesse. Writers Susan Bernofsky, Deborah Eisenberg and Wayne Koestenbaum read, discuss and worship Walser, a writer who is like a mouse
that roared—small and fragile but out-of-this-world outrageous
Sylvia Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore popular with Americans in Paris
Francois Cusset French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (University of Minnesota Press)
Our tour begins at Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore with a long
tradition of helping American writers in Paris. Then, it's on to François Cusset
and how French Theory found its bastion and stronghold in American
Universities.
Camille de Toledo: Coming of Age at the End of History (Soft Skull)
The young French critic, novelist and filmmaker Camille de Toledo tells the sad /exuberant story of young French intellectuals growing up at the end of everything.
RECENT SHOWS
Editor of Toon Books Françoise Mouly describes the new children's books she's bringing into the world...
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (Pantheon)
A sneak preview of the new Art Spiegelman book, which collects Art's early underground commix and includes his next autobiographical sequence...
Knockemstiff (Doubleday)
Knockemstiff, Ohio, inspires Donald Ray Pollock to explore the miseries and ferocities of small-town life.
The Story of a Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A wonderful young novelist, Andrew Sean Greer, writes about
enormous and basic truths that his characters choose to conceal...
The Enchantress of Florence (Random House)
In this new novel, Salman Rushdie explores Renaissance Florence
and the reign of Akbar in India, in order to describe a world on the
verge of discovering that all its beliefs are incorrect...
The Drop Edge of Yonder (Two Dollar Radio)
Where has Rudy Wurlitzer been for the last fifteen years? The mental traveler takes another vision quest, this time into the Old American
West...
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Knopf)
Tobias Wolff has re-written his famous stories many times—even
after they've been published...
Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems (New Directions)
Coral Bracho, a major Mexican poet, writes ecstatic visionary
poetry that has been translated into English for the first time. Our
program marks another first—she has never before agreed to an
interview...
Fall of Frost (Viking)
Brian Hall takes on a fictional life of
our great Robert Frost, giving language to the poet's inner life.
All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking)
Keith Gessen, one of the founding editors of the hip,
intellectual journal n+1, has written his first novel. It's about the
struggles of young people to break into the world of their aspirations,
in this case, the literary intelligentsia of New York City...
Sway (Little, Brown)
Zachary Lazar's novel is about the Rolling Stones, Charles Manson, Kenneth Anger and the dark side of the Sixties. In this conversation, we try to gauge how much "sympathy for the devil" the era generated—from sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll to satanic ritual murders.
Lush Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This high-voltage interview with Richard Price (he spiels, riffs, and shoots off sparks) gives a rare insight into the way he orchestrates the complex of simultaneous perception in his writing. He proceeds with a strong sense of dread—ready for an attack from any and every direction.
The Sum of Our Days (Harper)
Isabel Allende's second memoir is written to Paula, her daughter who died, telling the history of their family since her death. Allende tells stories naturally, and here we discuss storytelling as a form of memory, a way of preserving the present.
An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (Black Widow Press)
When The Bookworm explains that reading Eshleman's intense and visceral work brings up initial feelings of disgust, Eschleman responds that his poetry is a matter of initiation and transformation.
Declension in the Village of Chung Luong (Ausable Press) and Brian Turner Here, Bullet (Alice James Books)
Bruce Weigl is a poet who served in Vietnam. Brian Turner wrote poetry while serving in Iraq. Theirs is the poetry of war as written by on-site observers.
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