David Means: Hystopia

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After four acclaimed short story collections, Means' first novel takes on the Vietnam War.

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0:00.0	Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown.
0:03.6	I start to float, float away from the earth.
0:07.6	Have you ever smoked crack before?
0:09.5	We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning.
0:12.5	They have the neurotransmitters.
0:14.1	I think we're all jugglers in some way.
0:15.8	Yeah, we're not broken.
0:16.8	Crazy delinquents.
0:17.9	We're in our last day, young man.
0:22.7	Listen to Hear Be Monsters.
0:24.5	The podcast about the unknown.
0:26.8	On the KCRW iTunes page.
0:34.8	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannon Foundation.
0:37.5	Boots.
0:43.3	Where would we be without boos?
0:46.4	Where would we be without good? No, Timberg.
0:47.9	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:51.3	But where would we be without books?
1:00.8	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
1:09.5	Today, at long last, my guest is David Means, and at long last he's written his first novel. Its title is Histopia. It's published by Farris,
1:14.6	and Giroux, and in some strange way, and I'm not going to know what I mean by this, maybe he will.
1:25.6	It feels like a kind of morning after novel.
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