Bookworm
KCRW
Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Episodes
Mentioned books
May 14, 1991 • 30min
Jonathan Carroll
Bones of the Moon; Sleeping in Flame
Carroll blends post-modernism, children's literature and science fiction to create wholly-original novels.
May 7, 1991 • 28min
Joyce Carol Oates: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
Dark, passionate realist Oates' new novel explores inter-racial obsession.
Apr 30, 1991 • 30min
Susan Compo and Susan Straight
Authors Susan Compo and Susan Straight discuss their novels: Life after Death and Aquaboogie. A special show contrasting two California writers Compo details Melrose punk; Straight describes the multi-racial Riverside community in which she lives.
Apr 23, 1991 • 29min
Jane DeLynn
Don Juan In The Village International philosophical and sexual escapades of a fiction- writing lesbian.
Apr 16, 1991 • 30min
Tim Cahill
Road Fever Mad-dog adventurer travels from the tip of South America to the Arctic, breaking the Guinness World Record
Apr 9, 1991 • 30min
Ted Mooney
Traffic and Laughter; Easy Travel To Other Planets A novelist of futuristic dislocations.
Apr 2, 1991 • 30min
Barry Lopez
Crow And Weasel The naturalist has written a children's book based on American Indian and ecological themes.
Mar 23, 1991 • 30min
Diane Wood Middlebrook and Ann Lauterbach
Ann Sexton; Clamor
Diane Wood Middlebrook discusses Ann Sexton's life as revealed in her biography. Ann Lauterbach answers the Bookworm's questions about how to understand her poetry.
Mar 19, 1991 • 30min
William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown
The Ice Shirt and Big Bad Love
William T. Vollmann and Larry Brown discuss their novels: Vollmann's The Ice Shirt is a vast historical fantasy inspired by Icelandic sagas. Widely admired Southern short-story writer Brown is the author of Big Bad Love.
Mar 12, 1991 • 31min
Michael Cunningham
A Home At The End Of The World
