Chang-rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The possibility of a romantic adventure novel written in the repressive language of a dictatorship like China's would be entirely heartbreaking if it weren’t so funny. It would be very funny if it weren’t so heartbreaking.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to Bookworm. I'm host Michael Silverblatt. If there's another podcast that comes from us at KCRW that I really like is the treatment with Elvis Mitchell. I've said it for a long time. Elvis's style of interviewing is like jazz. He orchestrates so many interesting moments
0:21.7	and gets people to say
0:23.2	such surprising and interesting things
0:25.8	about film, about popular culture.
0:28.8	He really knows his subject
0:30.4	and he's one of the very best in the country.
0:34.0	Listen to the treatment.
0:37.2	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:42.0	Boots!
0:46.3	Where would we be without boos?
0:49.3	Where would we be without good?
0:51.3	No, Tenderberg.
0:53.3	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without good? No, Tinto bird. It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:56.9	But where would we be without books?
1:00.5	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is BookW.
1:07.1	And today I'm very happy to have as my guest, Chang Re Lee.
1:11.3	When his newest book on such a full C came out in hardcover,
1:16.1	I was so impressed by it.
1:18.1	It really kind of dazzled me and turned my head around.
1:24.6	And it took me a whole year to get him out here now that the paperback is
1:30.3	out. It's published by Riverhead Books. And you see, everyone talked about it as if
1:37.3	it were a dystopian novel. They compared it to the road, and I didn't think that that was what was going on at all.
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