Bookworm
KCRW
Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Apr 5, 2012 • 30min
Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson on her new memoir that details how she survived being adopted by a dominating and wildly eccentric Pentecostal mother.
Mar 29, 2012 • 29min
Moshe Kasher: Kasher in the Rye
The true tale of a white boy from Oakland who became a drug addict, criminal,
mental patient, and then turned 16.
Mar 22, 2012 • 30min
Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part II
Edward St. Aubyn on his a five-book series, The Patrick Melrose Novels. (Part Two of two)
Mar 15, 2012 • 29min
Edward St. Aubyn: The Patrick Melrose Novels, Part I
Edward St. Aubyn on his a five-book series, The Patrick Melrose Novels. (Part One of 2)
Mar 8, 2012 • 30min
Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet
What if language turned on its human users? Ben Marcus his novel, a dark story about language and the breakdown of language.
Mar 1, 2012 • 30min
Jonathan Lethem and Steve Erickson: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Jonathan Lethem and Steve Erickson discuss science fiction-prophet, writer Philip K Dick.
Feb 23, 2012 • 30min
Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend
Can a gay man and a straight man be friends? Edmund White explores the gay-straight axis in Jack Holmes & His Friend.
Feb 16, 2012 • 30min
Ayad Akhtar: American Dervish
Ayad Akhtar on coming-of-age as a Muslim in Milwaukee. We discuss the nature of cultural understanding and misunderstanding, sexual and spiritual awakening.
Feb 9, 2012 • 30min
Wayne Koestenbaum: Humiliation
Most everyone has a skeleton in the closet. Wayne Koestenbaum talks about those gruesome and hideous moments most of us would rather not remember.
Feb 2, 2012 • 29min
Steve Erickson: These Dreams of You
Steve Erickson latest novel seeks to find a haven in the midst of our economic despair and our fears of global catastrophe.
