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January 01, 1990 - January 20, 2013 + Bookworm
Shows
Lydia Millet: Magnificence 
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw130117lydia_millet
In Lydia Millet's novels, characters pass from the comedy of daily life to the beauty of visionary experience.
Amy Wilentz: Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw130110amy_wilentz_farewell
Journalist Amy Wilentz's admiring and sober portrait of post-earthquake Haiti...
Antoine Wilson: Panorama City
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw130103antoine_wilson_panor
The aimless hero of Antoine Wilson's second novel takes the world at face value and wishes to impart wisdom to his unborn son, after a...
Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121227oliver_sacks_halluci
Oliver Sacks on the neuropsychology and literature of hallucination, and what this disorienting medical condition reveals about the nature of the mind and human condition.
Charles Burns: The Hive
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121220charles_burns_the_hi
Burns reflects on the eerie spaces and dark themes that populate his graphic novels, as well as the nature of suspense that does not necessarily...
Mark Z. Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121213mark_z_danielewski_t
A ghost story about the weave of storytelling itself, written in sparse fragments of dialogue punctuated by faint embroidery, grim illustrations, and blank spaces.
Christine Schutt: Prosperous Friends
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121206christine_schutt_pro
Two artists find themselves in an inexplicable and unhappy marriage in Christine Schutt's new novel written in hypnotic prose.
Scott Shepherd and John Collins: Gatz
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121129scott_shepherd_and_j
A conversation with cast members about this revelatory new take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby."
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw050120david_mitchell
David Mitchell traces the consequences of greed from the beginnings of imperialism far into the future and the end of civilization...
Chris Kraus: Summer of Hate
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121115chris_kraus_summer_o
Novelist and social critic Chris Kraus on her latest novel, where romance and social redemption collide in post-Patriot Act America.
Chris Ware: Building Stories
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121108chris_ware_building_
Graphic novelist Chris Ware stretches the notion of the book to fantastic proportions in his latest publication...
Craig Nova: The Constant Heart
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121101craig_nova_the_const
Craig Nova's fourteenth novel conveys readers into dark and discomforting realms of the unseen, where human organs are harvested for sale on the black market...
Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121025martin_amis_lionel_a
British novelist Martin Amis discusses how a writer makes a good character endearing when readers want to root for the villain in his new work.
Susanna Moore: The Life of Objects
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw121018susanna_moore_the_li
Susanna Moore is interested in the things her characters don’t know. Her new novel is a story of innocence and dread.
