

Bookworm
KCRW
Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jan 11, 1993 • 30min
Paul Auster
Leviathan
Writer Paul Auster discusses the influence of Kafka and Beckett on his work.

Jan 4, 1993 • 30min
Maurice Sendak & Iona Opie
Brooklyn-born illustrator Maurice Sendak joins British folklorist Iona Opie to discuss the rhymes and taunts of the playground.

Dec 28, 1992 • 30min
Thomas McGuane: Nothing but Blue Skies
The writer discusses life in Montana as a literary style.

Dec 7, 1992 • 29min
Austryn Wainhouse
(Editor and Publisher of Marlboro Press) Wainhouse, who translated all of the Marquis de Sade, discusses the influence of Sade on literature and morality.

Nov 30, 1992 • 30min
Tama Janowitz
Male Crossdressers' Support Group Janowitz continues to gender-bend and cross all boundaries in the lives of her Slaves of New York.

Nov 23, 1992 • 30min
Bruce McPherson
(Publisher of McPherson & Co.) McPherson's press has rediscovered the work of Mary Butts, an experimental writer of great value.

Nov 16, 1992 • 30min
Robert Plunkett
Sex Junkie Plunkett discusses his farce about the incomprehension between gays and straights

Nov 9, 1992 • 29min
William Vollmann
Fathers and Crows
Explosive writer William Vollmann talks about savagery and civilization, leveling both.

Nov 2, 1992 • 30min
Cristina García: Dreaming in Cuban
Christina García's book Dreaming in Cuban explores three generations of Latina women and their emotional and political involvements.

Oct 26, 1992 • 30min
Reynolds Price
Blue Calhoun Price talks about the characters in his novel and the function of immorality in fiction.


