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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books from krw and

krrw.com I'm Michael Silverblatt and this is bookworm today my guest is someone

that I've been longing to meet his name is Dustin Long quite by chance but

chance is part of the subject here.

His first book was a book called Icelander.

It was published among the first books that McSweeney's did.

And his new book is called Bad Teeth, and it's published by Little A. And I find these books to be mysterious

in their workings. They have enormously friendly surfaces. This new book, Bad Teeth, is about a bunch

of 20-somethings.

Their lives interlock in various ways as they move between, well, you name four cities beginning with B.

So Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield.

And some of the characters recur.

Sometimes they recur in other forms.

They have secret code names.

They have disguises.

Some of them don't appear until part four.

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