Jeff VanderMeer: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
VanderMeer's trilogy chronicles expeditions orchestrated by a government agency called the Southern Reach into a dangerous landscape where reality and unreality blur.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.0 | Boots! |
| 0:09.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:13.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Timberd. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books? |
| 0:23.6 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:29.6 | And welcome to a very special, a very unusual show. |
| 0:35.6 | I have with me, Jeff van der Meer. He is the author most recently of two volumes |
| 0:46.1 | of a trilogy called the Southern Reach trilogy. The two volumes are Annihilation, that's volume one, and authority is volume two. They come from |
| 1:02.0 | Farris Strauss and Giroux paperback originals, but I've been hearing of Jeff Van Damir for years because I would get in the mail these things that came from the Ministry of Wimsy. |
| 1:20.6 | I thought the Ministry of Wimsy. Gotta keep that. |
| 1:25.6 | An imprint of Nightshade Press. |
| 1:29.6 | Wow. |
| 1:30.8 | So I have around 17 of these things. |
| 1:34.8 | And then I invited our own music librarian, but he also works at the Beverly Hills Public Library, Eric J. Lawrence, to come with me to talk to Jeff |
| 1:49.8 | Vandermere, because I guess the truth is these books take you to unknown places and I was afraid to go alone. Does that make sense? I really think I wasn't |
| 2:05.5 | sure I was ready for, I mean, you know, one of... |
| 2:09.7 | You weren't ready for annihilation? |
| 2:11.1 | I wasn't... I mean, I just, uh-oh, you know, like, what now? So what now? |
| 2:18.7 | What is this? |
| 2:20.0 | What is the Southern Reach series? |
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