Alan Cheuse: Prayers for the Living

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The "voice of NPR book reviews" takes a singular opportunity – the discussion of his own novel with KCRW's bookworm, Michael Silverblatt.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael Silverblatt. Thanks for tuning in to Bookworm. Some of our most exciting storytellers
0:07.4	share their work orally, and that's the kind of work you can hear on KCRW's Unfictional.
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0:31.9	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. Boots.
0:40.6	Where would we be without boos?
0:44.5	Where would we be without good?
0:46.7	No, Timber.
0:48.3	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:51.6	But where would we be without books?
0:55.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.
1:02.0	Today I'm happy to be speaking to Alan Schuss.
1:06.0	If you know his name, it's probably as the commentator for National Public Radio's all things considered,
1:12.5	but Alan is also a novelist and short storywriter and essayist. And in this new book,
1:20.7	Prayers for the Living, what we find him as is a everything. You know how you can order a bagel with everything on it. This is a book
1:34.5	with everything on it. And it's narrated by a woman named Mini Block, and she's talking about
1:41.9	her entire family.
1:45.0	She's been, in a sense, left alone.
1:48.3	Her husband, a vendor, fruit cart pusher, is killed very, very eerily.
1:59.1	He's killed because he's working on the Sabbath.
2:02.9	You should never work on Shabbas.
2:04.7	A rabbi warns him that God will punish him.
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