Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.

The podcast about the unknown.

On the KCRW iTunes page.

Boots.

Well, we're there without boos. The late and beloved E.R. Doctoro was a frequent guest on Bookworm, and we decided, in his honor and his memory, to re-air our final interview with him.

E.L. Doctoro appeared on Bookworm six times. This book, Homer and Langley, was one of my favorites.

Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.

You are a human animal. You are a very special breed.

Or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

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

I'm very happy to be in New York City with

E.L. Doctor O. When E.L. Doctor O doesn't come to Los Angeles with one of his books, I miss him

sorely. This is one of his very best, Homer and Langley, published by Random House, and I've

come to New York because I wanted to be

sure to talk to him about it. It's about the Collier brothers who are kind of legendary figures.

I mean, I think that most people growing up in New York have heard of these two brothers

who filled their houses with

many pianos and Model T-4, all kinds of brick-or-brac, labyrinths built out of bales of newspaper,

so much so that one was said to have died crushed in the an accidental fall of the papers

in this book which is an entirely fictional invention

you've read e.L. Doctor O you know how he does this kind of thing and if you don't

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