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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 need without books?

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

Boy, am I happy and excited today.

Chris Ware, one of my favorite guests, the author, of course, of Jimmy Corrigan,

the smartest boy in

the world and quimby mouse he's got a new well a new thing a new big thing i have a box

in front of me what are the dimensions of this box chris i think it is uh eleven and a half

by sixteen and a half maybe twelve and a half by 16 and a half, something like that.

It's like a big box that you might get on Christmas morning. It's brightly colored on the outside.

And I'm going to open it up right now and try together with Chris Ware, its author, to describe the contents

of the box called Building Stories.

Well, it's fabulous.

It's like a, it's like a game.

I guess a lot of people have said that.

But what I like is, of course, you have to look for the title in amongst these letters.

There are immediately the themes, the repeated themes of the book,

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