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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

Latest Episodes:

Lydia Millet: Magnificence Jan 17, 2013

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In Lydia Millet's novels, characters pass from the comedy of daily life to the beauty of visionary experience.

Amy Wilentz: Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti Jan 10, 2013

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Journalist Amy Wilentz's admiring and sober portrait of post-earthquake Haiti...

Antoine Wilson: Panorama City Jan 03, 2013

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The aimless hero of Antoine Wilson's second novel takes the world at face value and wishes to impart wisdom to his unborn son, after a life of suspended childhood himself.

Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations Dec 27, 2012

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Oliver Sacks on the neuropsychology and literature of hallucination, and what this disorienting medical condition reveals about the nature of the mind and human condition.

Charles Burns: The Hive Dec 20, 2012

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Burns reflects on the eerie spaces and dark themes that populate his graphic novels, as well as the nature of suspense that does not necessarily resolve into explanation.

Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword Dec 13, 2012

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A ghost story about the weave of storytelling itself, written in sparse fragments of dialogue punctuated by faint embroidery, grim illustrations, and blank spaces.

Christine Schutt: Prosperous Friends Dec 06, 2012

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Two artists find themselves in an inexplicable and unhappy marriage in Christine Schutt's new novel written in hypnotic prose.

Scott Shepherd and John Collins: Gatz Nov 29, 2012

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A conversation with cast members about this revelatory new take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby."

David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas Nov 22, 2012

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David Mitchell traces the consequences of greed from the beginnings of imperialism far into the future and the end of civilization...

Chris Kraus: Summer of Hate Nov 15, 2012

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Novelist and social critic Chris Kraus on her latest novel, where romance and social redemption collide in post-Patriot Act America.