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Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
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Oct 1, 2015 • 30min
Bonnie Nadzam and Dale Jamieson: Love in the Anthropocene
Fiction writer Bonnie Nadzam and environmental philosopher, Dale Jamieson, worked together to write Love in the Anthropocene, a collection of five short stories that describe a very near future in which nature as we know it no longer exists.

Sep 17, 2015 • 30min
Dodie Bellamy: When the Sick Rule the World
In this collection of prose pieces, Bellamy explodes the essay form into poetry, personal memoire and literary analysis

Sep 10, 2015 • 30min
William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part II
The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War is the fifth book in Vollman's seven-book series about loss and transformation of the North American continent, this novel dramatizes a power grab disguised as a race war between Native Americans and settlers.

Sep 3, 2015 • 30min
William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part I
The rise of corporate America begins with the ruthless acquisition of Indian land in this massively researched epic which evokes the language, the food, and the lost customs of the Nez Perce. This is the first of two conversations about William Vollman’s novel of the 1877 war that destroyed the Nez Perce.

Aug 27, 2015 • 30min
Allison Green: The Ghosts Who Travel with Me
A conversation with the author and Emily Goldman of Ooligan Press.

Aug 20, 2015 • 30min
Louisa Hall: Speak
Louisa Hall's novel Speak considers the Alan Turing test: how do we know if what we are communicating with via machine is human?

Aug 13, 2015 • 30min
Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets
Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium of tweets -- often dark and dispairing, but also bitingly funny -- written over the course of ten years, sometimes under their own names, sometimes using assumed names.

Aug 6, 2015 • 31min
E. L. Doctorow: Homer & Langley
In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives of the Collyer brothers — one a blind pianist, the other a hoarder and inventor — Doctorow creates an ironic allegory of modern America.

Jul 30, 2015 • 30min
Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman
Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez about the recent book by the late author. Harper Lee died today at the age of 89.

Jul 23, 2015 • 30min
Linda Rosenkrantz: Talk
In 1965, a young Linda Rosenkrantz had the novel idea to tape record her friends on the beach in East Hampton. The result was Talk, in which anything could become a subject for conversation – it was all discussed.


