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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

Latest Episodes:

Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters Mar 07, 2019

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Sea Monsters is a fascinatingly consistent and exquisitely shaped novel by Chloe Aridjis.

Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley: Permanent Green Light Feb 28, 2019

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Bookworm alumnus Dennis Cooper, and collaborator Zac Farley, discuss the creative impulses behind their film Permanent Green Light.

Sam Lipsyte: Hark Feb 21, 2019

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A novel that presents ambiguity as a constant feature of modern life, Hark is a book full of tensions, written with Sam Lipsyte’s fine grain strangeness, and absent of easy answers.

Amanda Sthers: Holy Lands Feb 14, 2019

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A writer of ten novels in French, Holy Lands is the first novel by Amanda Sthers to appear in English, translated by herself.

Tosh Berman: Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World Feb 07, 2019

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Tosh Berman’s memoir, Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World, is a depiction of culture brought into Los Angeles from the rest of the world: reinvented to be here.

Mary Ruefle: My Private Property Jan 31, 2019

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Mary Ruefle reads the entirety of her glorious and gruesome essay about shrunken heads, the title essay in her book My Private Property.

Diane Williams: The Collected Stories of Diane Williams Jan 24, 2019

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The original and indescribable writing of Diane Williams is showcased in over three hundred dazzling new and previously published shorts fictions from six releases, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams.

Deborah Eisenberg: Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories Jan 17, 2019

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Again Deborah Eisenberg demonstrates herself as a masterful and electric writer, in her new collection of seven stories, Your Duck Is My Duck.

John Wray: Godsend Jan 10, 2019

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John Wray discusses writing about the extremes of subjectivity, and breaking the reader of expectations in his new novel, Godsend.

Jeff Jackson: Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel Jan 03, 2019

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Jeff Jackson’s Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel comes at the same story from radically different angles that echo and rewrite each other.