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KCRW's Bookworm Podcast by Michael Silverblatt

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girijad83, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: girijad83 from India

KCRW's Bookworm Podcast by Michael Silverblatt includes an excellent series of interviews with established as well as promising talents in literature and poetry.

There are a total of ten interviews, including ones with Umberto Eco, Nicole Krauss and Bret Easton Ellis. While Eco discusses his conception of memory in his book 'The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana', Krauss ponders upon the transmission of memory. Other interesting interviews deal with the topic of identity- racial as well as cultural.

The audio quality is good and Silverblatt incise in his questioning. I give this podcast four stars and recommend it to all serious book lovers.

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The Year of the Flood  (Doubleday)
Margaret Atwood thinks she has done something new: her novel, The Year of the Flood, takes place simultaneously with Oryx and Crake ? her nightmare novel about the biotechnological future...

As Is  (Copper Canyon)
One of our most tender poets (tough but tender), James Galvin, investigates his growing tendency toward poems that express his bitterness? toward politics, environmental despoilment, big business. Still he affirms, in poems that breathe with sweet relief, the ongoing possibility of love.

The Anthologist (Simon & Schuster)
The polymath Nicholson Baker has been able to create a version of himself in the figure of accomplished poet Paul Chowder...

Glover's Mistake (Viking)
In this novel of love, manipulation and deception, Nick Laird attempts 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.

A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf)
Lorrie Moore has 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...

The Angel's Game (Doubleday)
Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón has attracted an international audience with his series of metaphysical thrillers.

Ugly Man (Harper Collins)

Although we've followed the career of Dennis Copper from the ground up, in this conversation, he acknowledges a new influence?the master director of French film comedy, Jacques Tati.

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, Ã�lvaro Uribe, and Cristina 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.  

Road Show, a recording of the musical (Nonesuch, PS Classics)
Stephen Sondheim is right ? his new musical, Roadshow, is not gloomy. Sondheim and his collaborator, playwright John Weidman, discuss the many revisions of the musical that has evolved in an extraordinary way, and may yet become an American classic...

How to Sell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Clancy Martin's first novel reads like a piece of sleaze, but it turns out ? surprise! ? to be a philosophical novel about the problems of appearance and reality...

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