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Jim Shepard's fondness for the little guy, the day-dreaming Walter Mitty type is the focus of this conversation, leading to the big question...Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:10.0 | You are a very special breed, |
| 0:14.0 | for you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.0 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.4 | From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:27.2 | Today, my guest is Jim Shepard. |
| 0:29.6 | He is an author I'd wanted to have on the show for a very long time. |
| 0:33.8 | I'd read his very first novels. |
| 0:36.9 | Now he has a novel and a book of short stories that came out simultaneously. |
| 0:42.6 | The novel is Project X. |
| 0:44.3 | It's published by Knopf, and the book of short stories is Love and Hydrogen, New and Selected Stories, and It's Out from Vintage. |
| 0:52.1 | His other books include Nospheratu. |
| 0:57.8 | Battling. |
| 0:58.5 | Excuse me. |
| 0:59.4 | Not battling. |
| 1:00.6 | Oh, by the way, you can, if we say things wrong, we'll edit them out later. |
| 1:04.9 | Battling against Castro, a collection of stories, kiss of the wolf, lights out in the reptile house, |
| 1:12.2 | paper doll, which is where I began reading Jim Shepard, |
| 1:15.6 | and flights. |
| 1:17.4 | Now, I wanted to start because, you know, |
| 1:20.9 | I had read that you had studied with John Hawks. |
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