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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

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Mark de Silva: Square Wave Feb 25, 2016

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Philosopher Mark de Silva's debut novel shows what a novel can do when it goes off the beaten track.

Darryl Pinckney: Black Deutschland Feb 18, 2016

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Darryl Pinckney talks about the attraction of leaving America to discover how to be an African-American in America.

Ryan Gattis: All Involved Feb 11, 2016

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Ryan Gattis' new book, All Involved, is really a reconstitution of the L.A. riots from a person who wasn't there.

Larissa MacFarquhar: Strangers Drowning Feb 04, 2016

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Larissa MacFarquhar writes about do-gooders who practice effective altruism. They don't care what others think of their extreme choices. They care about being effective.

Edmund de Waal: The White Road Jan 28, 2016

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Edmund de Waal takes us on a vast journey into the history and heart, skin and bones of porcelain.

Bruce Bauman: Broken Sleep Jan 21, 2016

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Bruce Bauman's new novel is like a family with everyone, including the reader, struggling to find a place, a home, a sense of community.

Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners Jan 14, 2016

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Poets and editors CAConrad, Robert Dewhurst, and Joshua Beckman talk both about groundbreaking, boldly gay poet/activist, John Wieners, and about the process of compiling and honoring such a prolific poet with the selected works book.

Rick Moody: Hotels of North America Jan 07, 2016

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Hotel reviews that really, become reviews on life.

Salman Rushdie: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Dec 31, 2015

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Salman Rushdie's version of The Arabian Nights, his attempt to understand what the through-line of the collection of classic tales is and partly as a portrait of the human race and its salvation. (Repeat)

Paul Murray: The Mark and the Void Dec 24, 2015

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Paul Murray's comic novel dramatizes an economic crisis in his native Ireland, one that imperils the vitality of Dublin's culture.

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