Eileen Myles: Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Fearless Eileen Myles discusses her fears in this autobiographical novel.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.2 | Boots! |
| 0:09.5 | Where would we be without boos? |
| 0:13.0 | Where would we be without Gutenberg? |
| 0:16.7 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.1 | But where would we be without books? |
| 0:23.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Sloverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:29.5 | Today I'm very excited to have us my guest, Eileen Miles. |
| 0:33.4 | Her novel, Inferno, is a poet's novel. |
| 0:37.8 | It's also a memoir, autobiography, modeled on Dante's Inferno, or at least the three parts of it. |
| 0:46.4 | And it's hilarious. |
| 0:49.1 | It's moving. |
| 0:50.6 | It's readable and terrific. |
| 0:53.2 | It's published by Orr Books. |
| 0:55.4 | You can read about it at Orrbooks.com. |
| 0:59.1 | A poet's novel. |
| 1:01.4 | What's that? |
| 1:03.0 | I mean, I guess in a way it's like telling you that something is handmade, that this is not a machine-made novel. |
| 1:08.6 | This is not a novel that feels deeply familiar in that you've read it before, that it |
| 1:13.4 | might stop and start. |
| 1:14.9 | It might take leaps like poetry does. |
| 1:17.5 | In a way, I mean, I think because there is a tendency to call a novel that uses the author's |
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