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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

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Jonathan Carroll May 14, 1991

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Bones of the Moon; Sleeping in Flame

Carroll blends post-modernism, children's literature and science fiction to create wholly-original novels.

Joyce Carol Oates: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart May 07, 1991

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Dark, passionate realist Oates' new novel explores inter-racial obsession.

Susan Compo and Susan Straight Apr 30, 1991

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Authors Susan Compo and Susan Straight discuss their novels: Life after Death and Aquaboogie. A special show contrasting two California writers Compo details Melrose punk; Straight describes the multi-racial Riverside community in which she lives.

Jane DeLynn Apr 23, 1991

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Don Juan In The Village International philosophical and sexual escapades of a fiction- writing lesbian.

Tim Cahill Apr 16, 1991

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Road Fever Mad-dog adventurer travels from the tip of South America to the Arctic, breaking the Guinness World Record

Ted Mooney Apr 09, 1991

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Traffic and Laughter; Easy Travel To Other Planets A novelist of futuristic dislocations.

Barry Lopez Apr 02, 1991

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Crow And Weasel The naturalist has written a children's book based on American Indian and ecological themes.

Diane Wood Middlebrook and Ann Lauterbach Mar 23, 1991

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Ann Sexton; Clamor

Diane Wood Middlebrook discusses Ann Sexton's life as revealed in her biography. Ann Lauterbach answers the Bookworm's questions about how to understand her poetry.

William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown Mar 19, 1991

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The Ice Shirt and Big Bad Love

William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown discuss their novels: Vollmann's The Ice Shirt is a vast historical fantasy inspired by Icelandic sagas. Widely admired Southern short-story writer Brown is the author of Big Bad Love.