I'm the co-producer bookworm, Sean Sullivan, and I was asked to share one of my favorite bookworm programs from the archives at KCRW.com.

Featuring the old theme song and taped at Carnegie Hall Studios in New York City 2008, the topic is one of my favorite kinds of books, with a narrative shaped like a person.

In senselessness, the protagonist reads about a nation's atrocities and experiences psychological

frustrations.

Structured by his mental landscape, a complicated mind finds a full shape and literary

possibilities.

It's bad days well written, and Americans today are likely to relate to the atrocities described

in Moyah's book.

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 Silverblot, and this is Bookworm. I'm here in New York City

attending the Penn World Festival of International Voices.

And I'm very pleased to have, as my guest today, Horacio Castellanos-Moya.

His novel, Senselessness, is the first novel of his to be published in English.

His publisher is New Directions. I'm very pleased as well to be

talking to the author of a book published by New Directions because from their inception to the

present, they have always been a publisher where you can trust their books. They published

the first things in English of Sebalt. They published the first things in English of Roberto

Bolognao. And this wonderful, it's a legacy.

It goes all the way back to Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.

This is a true American publisher of an avant-garde, and they have never wavered.

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