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Boots!

Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, here I am Michael Silverblatt.

This is Bookworm.

And did you know that Bookworm has been on 30 years?

And one of the things that I'm happiest about is that you go back through the

bookworm archives and you hear so much literary history. Part of that history inevitably,

since this bookworms, a show that comes from Los Angeles, includes the beginning of the career of Dennis Cooper.

Eventually, after his five George Miles novels, he moves to Paris.

I visit him there.

We do an interview with a choreographer he was working with named Giselle Vienne.

And now he's making movies.

He's making movies with a partner named Zach Farley.

They've made two films so far.

And somehow I have connected

the history of Dennis Cooper

and his varying projects and enterprises

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