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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

Latest Episodes:

Per Petterson: I Refuse May 07, 2015

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Per Petterson's I Refuse is a beautiful and lyrical symphony of sadness, grief and loss.

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant Apr 30, 2015

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Kazuo Ishiguro starts the interview about his new book as a look at the concept of societal memory.

Luis Alberto Urrea: Tijuana Book of the Dead, and The Water Museum Apr 23, 2015

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The border between poetry and fiction is dismantled when the poet/author is Luis Alberto Urrea.

David Vann: Aquarium Apr 16, 2015

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In talking about his new novel, David Vann tells us how the characters were born of staring for hours at different delicate fish until they revealed who he was supposed to write about.

Charles Baxter and the 'Hidden Bookshelf' Apr 09, 2015

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Charles Baxter takes us through the pleasure of discovering books for what might be called the "hidden bookshelf."

Charles Baxter: There's Something I Want You to Do Apr 02, 2015

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Charles Baxter examines the elements of virtue and vice in his new collection of short stories.

Rachel Kushner: The Strange Case of Rachel K Mar 26, 2015

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Rachel Kushner talks about the earliest impulses that inspired her first novel Telex from Cuba. She wanted a new concept of time, she needed to find a voice to create that highly subjective and changeable thing--the past.

Claudia Rankine: The Racial Imaginary Mar 19, 2015

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The discussion takes up writers who write about the racial "other." Can every writer do it successfully? Are there writers who shouldn't or can't? When is it appropriate and necessary?

Claudia Rankine: Citizen, An American Lyric Mar 12, 2015

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In discussing Claudia Rankine's Citizen, an American Lyric, we discuss the way racism catches us all.

Joyce Carol Oates: The Sacrifice Mar 05, 2015

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Joyce Carol Oates shapes a novel from the Tawana Brawley scandal of the 1980's.