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Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today.

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When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say,

I really should vote for someone smarter than me.

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Boots. Where we we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timber.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

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

Today I have as my guest, the infamous and notorious Gary, Indiana, who has written an anti-memoir called I Can Give You Anything But Love. It's published by Ritzoli. It's a

beautiful book. Tell me, I'm repeating anti-memoir because I've heard it from others. Do you

regard it as an anti-memoir? I'll accept that term, I think, insofar as I tried really not to write the kind of memoir

that people are publishing, I suppose, it's an anti-memoir.

So first of all, it seems, you go somewhere away from the scene of the crime. You begin in Cuba, where you've spent, what, four or five months a year for...

17 years.

And so you are writing off the grid, and you're writing really from an apartment, a beautiful apartment, in a culture

that Americans are about to take by storm, yes?

Well, hopefully not, but it certainly looks that way.

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