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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No to bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books? From KCRWORical question, sir, but where would we need without books?

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

Today I have as my guest, Andrade Dubuse III.

He reminds me that his name rhymes with abuse, and his stories do too in a certain way.

The book is called Dirty Love.

It's a great title in that it's both a come-on and a nightmare.

Aren't they all?

Yes.

I wanted to begin by asking you, who are your people?

What kind of people do you write about?

You know, that's a really hard question because the honest answer is I don't know.

They just keep coming though, don't they?

But if I look back, you know, don't know you know i i'll i'll

i'll i'll hear someone describe my characters as flawed or or outsiders or people who fall between

the cracks and and i just haven't met anyone who's not that you know you know lately i've been

meeting some wealthy people who seem to be in charge and they

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