Elizabeth McCracken: Bowlaway
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Her nature oppositional, Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway is a sad, funny, hilarious, and melancholic novel.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:03.8 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Timberd. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:20.0 | But where would we need without books? |
| 0:22.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, this is Michael Silverblatt, and you're listening to Bookworm. |
| 0:31.8 | Today is a long-awaited culmination to years of waiting. |
| 0:39.8 | I've loved Elizabeth McCracken, my guest, |
| 0:45.6 | since the first time I read one of her books. |
| 0:48.4 | That was her first novel, The Giant's House. |
| 0:52.2 | I've read everything by her since. |
| 0:55.7 | As everyone says, you know, she's a joy. |
| 1:02.2 | She's a pleasure. |
| 1:03.9 | She's sad and funny and hilarious and melancholy. |
| 1:08.5 | Opposition is in her very nature. and now she's written her first novel |
| 1:14.9 | in 18 years. It's called Bolaway. It's published by Echo, and it made me laugh and cry, |
| 1:24.4 | as she always does. It's about a bowling alley in New England. |
| 1:33.4 | What is Candlepin bowling? |
| 1:36.1 | Because I'd never heard of it. |
| 1:38.8 | Well, because I'm a New Englander, I'm bound to say that Candlepin bowling is real bowling. |
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