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You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed,

or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

From KCRW Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today we conclude our series, an American bookworm in Paris,

recorded recently when, as a guest of the cultural services of the French embassy,

I was in Paris for the very first time.

My guest today are American novelist Dennis Cooper and French director choreographer

Giselle Vian.

As everyone knows, Paris has long been a home to expatriate writers.

And one of the great pleasures for me while here was that a writer who began in Los Angeles,

Dennis Cooper, has been living here for nearly three years. And he has, in addition to a rather ambitious blog and his own prose writing, he has been working

in collaboration with Giselle Vionn, who is a director and choreographer, and they have done

four collaborative pieces together.

These pieces began with, I apologize, followed by

a Belle Enfant-Bondon, a young beautiful blonde girl,

which was written in collaboration with Catherine Robreier,

followed by Kinder Toten leader,

and now most recently opened in Paris just this weak jerk.

Giselle, had you been working in collaboration with writers before this?

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