KCRW's Bookworm

Salman Rushdie: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Dodie Bellamy: When the Sick Rule the World

In this collection of prose pieces, Bellamy explodes the essay ...

In this collection of prose pieces, Bellamy explodes the essay form into poetry, personal memoire and literary analysis

William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part II

The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War ...

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

William T. Vollmann: The Dying Grass, Part I

The rise of corporate America begins with the ruthless acquisition ...

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?

Allison Green: The Ghosts Who Travel with Me

A conversation with the author and Emily Goldman of Ooligan ...

A conversation with the author and Emily Goldman of Ooligan Press.

Louisa Hall: Speak

Louisa Hall's novel Speak considers the Alan Turing test: how ...

Louisa Hall's novel Speak considers the Alan Turing test:  how do we know if what we are communicating with via machine is human?

Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin: Selected Tweets

Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin's Selected Tweets is a compendium ...

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.

E. L. Doctorow: Homer & Langley

In this comic and affecting novel based on the lives ...

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.

Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman

Michael Silverblatt in conversation with Bookworm producer Connie Alvarez .

Linda Rosenkrantz: Talk

In 1965, a young Linda Rosenkrantz had the novel idea ...

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.