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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 KCROLFOROTRICAL question, sir, but where would we mean without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today I have the pleasure of introducing Dylan Landis.

It's her first time on the show.

She's the author of a novel called Rainy Royal.

It's published by Soho Press. She has a book of stories called

Normal People Don't Live Like This. And if you find that you love the characters in Rainy Royal,

you can find out more about them in the book of stories.

But I found that Dylan Landis write stories about disturbed people,

young people mainly.

Their girls, sometimes movies call them mean girls, but they didn't seem so much mean to me as terribly, terribly vulnerable and easily touched and hurt.

And the method of the writing is to deal in short, sharp shocks.

Can you tell me what I might mean by that?

I think what you mean by it is that these are written as stories originally.

And so they're very compressed and very distilled.

And the short, sharp shocks come one after the other, after the other, story by story by story.

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