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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

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Eileen Myles: Afterglow (a dog memoir) Oct 26, 2017

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Beloved writer Eileen Myles didn't make up the dog but she did make up Afterglow (a dog memoir).

Kazuo Ishiguro Oct 19, 2017

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We sample 25 years of Bookworm conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Prize Laureate for literature.

Stephen Greenblatt: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Oct 12, 2017

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Following his National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize celebrated The Swerve, in the elaborately readable The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt explores reasons why the story of Genesis has seized the imagination.

Nicole Krauss: Forest Dark Oct 05, 2017

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Nicole Krauss took a risk by writing about two protagonists who never meet. Krauss says she let herself follow the characters of Forest Dark into the unknown.

Andrew Sean Greer: Less Sep 28, 2017

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In his novel Less, Andrew Sean Greer discusses filterless writing and the idea of getting what you want in a world bent on not giving you what you want.

Matthew Klam: Who Is Rich? Sep 21, 2017

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Matthew Klam reveals that his novel Who is Rich? ponders the meaning of wealth. Is richness having a big bank account or is it being happy with your lot in life?

Mark Z. Danielewski: The Familiar Sep 14, 2017

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Mark Danielewski says he wants to give words to animals, to plants, to the waves of the ocean. His vast serial novel The Familiar begins with a young girl rescuing a cat.

George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part II) Sep 07, 2017

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Known for the outrageous comedy of his acclaimed short stories, George Saunders says that daring to write this novel about grief, loss and the journey of the soul was like jumping off a cliff. [REPEAT]

George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Aug 31, 2017

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Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes." [REPEAT]

Danzy Senna: New People Aug 24, 2017

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In her novel New People, Danzy Senna relishes kicking political correctness to the curb. She believes that irony and humor are more effective than earnestness when writing about race and gender

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