Cathleen Schine: The Grammarians

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Language-loving twin sisters discover themselves united by passion but separated by needs in The Grammarians, the eleventh book by Cathleen Schine.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.3	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without booms?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:23.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:28.3	This is Bookworm, and I'm really happy.
0:31.9	Kathleen Shine, that's S-C-H-I-N-E, is my guest, and I just inadvertently said, my job is to help you shine.
0:42.7	And her new book is The Grammarians.
0:45.5	And years and years ago, when I used to talk to Pauline Kale on the phone regularly,
0:52.1	she recommended your first novel to me, Alice in bed, and I've read you
0:56.7	ever since. How many books is it now? This is 11. This book is called The Grammarians, and it's about
1:06.3	identical twins who grow up and they share, as certain twins do, a private language,
1:17.6	yes?
1:18.6	Yes.
1:19.6	And you made it up.
1:20.6	I did.
1:21.6	I had hoped to make up an entire language, but that's rather difficult. So I referred to the Mitford's language a lot.
1:33.3	The Mitford's language?
1:35.3	The Midford Sisters?
1:36.3	They had a private language.
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