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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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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.

The Braindead Megaphone (Riverhead)
This conversation provides a mini-course in short-story writing, Saunders-style and explores the construction of short fiction from the ground up.

The Reserve (Harper)
Russell Banks, one of the great living American novelists, uses the 1930's novel of passion and betrayal -- with its allied seductions, madness, and adultery -- to explore America's class system; the relationships between art, politics and wealth; and the despoiling of the American Landscape. (An abridged version of this interview will be heard live on KCRW due to our semi-annual subscription drive. It will be archived in its entirety online.)

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