Tag Archive | Bookworm
Javier Marias Interview on Bookworm
Michael Silverblatt interviewed Javier Marias about his trilogy Your Face Tomorrow for his most recent episode of Bookworm. It is an interesting conversation, although one gets the impression that Marías is brushing aside Silverblatt’s often baroque questions. The first part of the interview is here and the second part will be here. Michael Silverblatt
The State of American Fiction – Clancy Martin on Bookworm
Bookworm had an excellent discussion about American Fiction and culture recently. Ostensively, the show was about Clancy Martin’s new book, How to Sell, but the interview was more wide ranging, yet incisive and to the point (not something that Silverblatt always achieves). It was particularly insightful when positing that the ethical and intellectual works in fiction [...]
Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza on Bookworm
KCRW’s Bookworm has an excellent interview with Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza about their new book Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive). It is an interesting conversation about the state of Mexican fiction, especially for post Boom authors. One of the good things about the book is that it is bilingual, a rarity in fiction. [...]
Horacio Castellanos Moya on Bookworm
I haven’t listed to this yet but Horacio Castellanos Moya was on Bookworm recently.
