Harry Dodge: My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Harry Dodge’s My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing shifts its scale from the cosmos to viruses.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.6	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, into the bird.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we need without books?
0:22.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:29.3	This is bookworm, and I'm talking today to the artist Harry Dodge, who has written his first book, which is called My Meteorite.
0:41.9	It has a great subtitle. It's My Meteorite, or without the random, there can be no new thing.
0:52.1	And tell us where that subtitle comes from.
0:56.8	Hey, Michael.
0:57.9	It's a Gregory Bateson quote.
0:59.2	Throughout Harry Dodge's book,
1:02.8	My Meteorite,
1:04.7	he refers to things that I love.
1:08.7	Among them,
1:10.4	Gregory Bateson's essay, but also Merleau-Ponty, also Bet Midler.
1:18.9	He tells us what it feels like to see Hello Dolly and to see her dancing with all these
1:28.2	astonishing muscular gay waiters.
1:33.3	There are many things that Harry Dodge loves, and they appear in my
1:40.3	meteorite.
1:41.8	One of them is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, because it gives him an idea
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