Dana Spiotta: Stone Arabia
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A deep and ultimately heartbreaking look at family relationships, love, identity and memory—all against the heyday of LA rock 'n' roll, new wave and punk...
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:03.8 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without boos? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Timberd. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.0 | But where would we need without books? |
| 0:23.8 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Sloverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:29.7 | Today I'm thrilled to have Dana Spiotta. The first thing I needed to learn about Dana Spiotta |
| 0:36.3 | is that her name isn't Dana Spiata. It's Dana Spiotta. |
| 0:41.5 | And similarly, in her books, the reason why this is significant is, I think, that she names her |
| 0:47.3 | characters so that readers will have the same difficulty. Is it Mina or Mina? Is it Ada or |
| 0:54.0 | Ada? Is it Dana or Dana? Is it Ada or Ada? Is it Dana or |
| 0:55.9 | Dana? And I think |
| 0:57.3 | I want to inflict my characters |
| 1:00.3 | with my own suffering. |
| 1:02.7 | Is that true? I'm curious. |
| 1:05.1 | Well, you know, |
| 1:06.8 | not consciously, but it does seem |
| 1:09.0 | I could see why you would say that. |
| 1:11.9 | What I love about these books, these books are especially significant books for people who live in Los Angeles because they manage to create a Los Angeles like Los Angeles. |
| 1:26.4 | It's like an excavation. There's movie Los Angeles, it's like an excavation. |
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