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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

Latest Episodes:

Michael Ondaatje: The Cat's Table Mar 28, 2013

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Ondaatje discusses his turn from concealment to revelation and reflects on the magic of youth.

Jess Walter: We Live in Water Mar 21, 2013

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How did Jess Walter make the leap between his romantic novel, "Beautiful Ruins," and the end-of-the-world sadness of his stories in "We Live in Water?"

Eloise Klein Healy: A Wild Surmise Mar 14, 2013

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The recently named the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles reads selections from her new collection and reflects on what it means to be a poet of place today.

Luis Alberto Urrea, Part Two Mar 07, 2013

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Luis Alberto Urrea ("The Hummingbird's Daughter" and "Queen of America") continues to discuss his saga inspired by the life of Teresita Urrea, "the Mexican Joan of Arc."

Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America Feb 28, 2013

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Luis Alberto Urrea's "Queen of America," completes the two-volume saga that began with "The Hummingbird's Daughter." Both follow the journey of a Mexican curandera...

George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part Two Feb 21, 2013

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In this second interview, George Saunders delves further into the dark-comic twists and turns of his recent short story collection. (Part 2 of 2)

Nick Flynn: The Reenactments Feb 14, 2013

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Nick Flynn on the strange days on the set of Being Flynn, a film adapted from his personal memoir, and starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.

Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then Feb 07, 2013

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Jamaica Kincaid's first novel in ten years is an emotionally bare story about the erosion of a marriage.

George Saunders: Tenth of December, Part One Jan 31, 2013

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George Saunders reflects on writing, "infinitely" revising, and how he finds the voices for his luminous but smudged characters. (Part 1 of 2)