Description: A must for the serious reader, "Bookworm" showcases writers of fiction and poetry - the established, new or emerging - all interviewed with insight and precision by the show's host and guiding spirit, Michael Silverblatt.
First, Sparks on Bookworm's new theme songs. Then poet Paul Muldoon (Maggot, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) on how writing poems differs from writing song lyrics..
Craig Nova has written a frightening novel about corruption in pre-Nazi Berlin. Especially frightening is Nova's perception that those times are so similar to ours...
Country of Origin (Norton) Multi-racial ethnicity underlies the mystery in this literary thriller by a Korean-American writer who spent much of his childhood first in Japan and then in Korea. This, then, is a discussion of a mystery constructed from cultural misunderstanding and interracial distrust. Program note: This interview will not air on KCRW, as it will be pre-empted by special Thanksgiving Day programming.
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translations (Knopf); Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke, introduction by William Gass (Archipelago)
The greatest living writer of prose in English explores his deepest influence: Rainer Maria Rilke. In this conversation, we witness the interpretation of two modern masters.
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Description: A must for the serious reader, "Bookworm" showcases writers of fiction and poetry - the established, new or emerging - all interviewed with insight and precision by the show's host and guiding spirit, Michael Silverblatt.
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