Tuesday 19 April 2011

KCRW’s Bookworm

Oh, this is an amazing find. Why don’t people tell me about these things? It’s a radio show in America with a whole closet of amazing author interviews going back twenty years. The host sounds like he’s passing a kidney stone, but he’s one of the most incisive interviewers I’ve ever heard. Here are some highlights:

Martin Amis (1)

Martin Amis (2)

Martin Amis (3)

John Ashbery (1)

John Ashbery (2)

John Ashbery (3)

Nicolson Baker (1)

Nicolson Baker (2)

Nicolson Baker (3)

John Barth (1)

John Barth (2)

John Barth (3)

Aimee Bender

Leonard Cohen

Stanley Crawford

Lydia Davis (1)

Lydia Davis (2)

Lydia Davis (3)

Don DeLillo (1)

Don DeLillo (2)

Don DeLillo (3)

Junot Diaz

Rikki Ducornet (1)

Rikki Ducornet (2)

Dave Eggers

Michel Houellebecq

Kazuo Ishiguro

Miranda July

A.L. Kennedy

Jonathan Lethem (1)

Jonathan Lethem (2)

Jonathan Lethem (3)

Kelly Link

Micheline Aharonian Marcom (1)

Micheline Aharonian Marcom (2)

Micheline Aharonian Marcom (3)

David Markson

Harry Mathews

David Mitchell (1)

David Mitchell (2)

David Mitchell (3)

Rick Moody (1)

Rick Moody (2)

Rick Moody (3)

Chuck Palahniuk

Jean Phillipe-Toussiant

Richard Powers

Ishmael Reed

Jonathan Safran Foer

George Saunders (1)

George Saunders (2)

George Saunders (3)

W.G. Sebald

Hubert Selby Jr.

David Shields (1)

David Shields (2)

David Shields (3)

Zadie Smith (1)

Zadie Smith (2)

Christopher Sorrentino

Gilbert Sorrentino (1)

Gilbert Sorrentino (2)

Gilbert Sorrentino (3)

Gilbert Sorrentino (4)

Gilbert Sorrentino (5)

Ron Sukenick

Rupert Thomson

Lynn Tillman (1)

Lynn Tillman (2)

Lynn Tillman (3)

Gore Vidal (1)

Gore Vidal (2)

Kurt Vonnegut (1)

Kurt Vonnegut (2)

David Foster Wallace (1)

David Foster Wallace (2)

David Foster Wallace (3)

David Foster Wallace (4)

Curtis White (1)

Curtis White (2)

Curtis White (3)

3 comments:

  1. Wow. What a list. Will be checking these out. Thanks, Mark!

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  2. SORRENTINO. Can you believe it? SORRENTINO!!!!! HI MOM!!!!!!!

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  3. This is awesome! Some odd interviews. Thanks!

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