Christine Schutt: Pure Hollywood

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Christine Schutt says her writing takes place in a danger zone. In Pure Hollywood, one novella and ten stories, she writes beyond weird, at a level that both frightens and empowers.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.3	Boots!
0:09.3	Where would we be without boos?
0:13.1	Where would we be without good?
0:15.4	No, Zintuberg.
0:16.9	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.2	But where would we be without books?
0:23.9	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Sulferblatt.
0:29.3	This is bookworm, and I'm so happy that Christine Scott is here with me.
0:34.8	Her new book of short stories is called
0:37.7	very uncharacteristic title, Pure Hollywood.
0:42.5	And in order to alleviate one's fear that she's giving us pure Hollywood,
0:49.2	the cover is a picture of the most pernicious- looking cactus-like plant I've ever seen.
0:58.6	So, you know, it's pure Hollywood in the desert among plants with spines and really endangered people. I think that Christine Scott writes the most unusual, the most singular, the most perverse sentences of any of the people working today in 1996.
1:30.3	John Ashbury, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, said that the best book that he read that year was a book called Nightwork, a first book by a writer named Christine Scott.
1:49.1	And I read Nightwork. It was fascinating. Then came a novel called Florida, a book of stories called
2:00.4	A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer,
2:03.6	a novel called All Souls.
2:07.6	Christine joined me to talk about her last book, Prosperous Friends,
2:15.6	so detailed about the relationship among people that one of the people
2:23.4	I gave it to said it made him feel like he was hallucinating.
2:28.3	And now we've got pure Hollywood.
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