Bruce Bauman: Broken Sleep

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Bruce Bauman's new novel is like a family with everyone, including the reader, struggling to find a place, a home, a sense of community.

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0:00.0	Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.
0:22.4	The podcast about the unknown.
0:24.2	On the KCRW iTunes page.
0:30.3	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannon Foundation.
0:34.2	Boots.
0:39.3	Where would we be without boos?
0:43.1	Where would we be without good?
0:45.4	No, Timber.
0:46.9	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:50.2	But where would we be without books?
0:53.7	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
1:00.3	Today, my guest is Bruce Bauman.
1:03.3	He's a novelist.
1:04.6	His most recent book is Broken Sleep.
1:07.7	It's published by the other press.
1:10.0	And I'd say it's a kind of wild take on the family dynastic
1:15.9	novel. This family has been divided into so many parts and for so many reasons that the book is
1:25.3	about trying to form a family back together.
1:29.3	Sometimes the family forms together in the shape of a band.
1:33.3	Sometimes the family forms back together in the shape of a political party.
1:39.3	Nevertheless, however they form, they're always dysfunctional, and they're always falling apart.
1:47.0	Members are always leaving.
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