David Vann: Aquarium

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In talking about his new novel, David Vann tells us how the characters were born of staring for hours at different delicate fish until they revealed who he was supposed to write about.

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0:58.0	I'm Michael Silverblatt and welcome to Bookworm.
1:02.0	Today my guest is David Van.
1:05.0	His new novel is Aquarium.
1:08.0	Everything about it's new.
1:09.0	He has a new publisher. Atlantic, yes?
1:12.2	Yeah, Grove. Grove Atlantic, yeah. Also new. This is a novel narrated by a young girl who is,
1:21.7	by the time the book begins, she's 32 years old. But all the others have been boy books.
1:28.4	I wondered the change of sex.
1:31.2	Was that difficult?
1:33.1	No, I grew up all with women, pretty much.
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