John Darnielle: Wolf In White Van

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Darnielle titled his novel after a back-masked message in Larry Norman’s song “Six Sixty Six.” He reflects on our desire to locate meaning where there might be none.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.7	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.7	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:30.0	Well, things are happening very, very quickly from my guest, John Darniel. His very first novel, Wolf in White Van, it's
0:41.0	published by Farah Strauss, which is an accomplishment. They're around one of the very
0:47.5	top. It's hard to find better. In New York, yes. And they've published his first novel.
0:55.3	He is known as the songwriter and lead singer for the Mountain Goats.
1:02.2	And I guess it's my suspicion that this has been a dream of yours from the word go to write a novel.
1:16.2	Am I right?
1:17.2	In a way, but not in a, it wasn't something in the back of my mind going,
1:21.6	well, I hope I write a novel someday.
1:23.2	It's more something when I was a child, I assumed.
1:26.3	Like, that's where I was going.
1:27.6	My love of books was profound.
1:29.1	It was really my first, except for music.
1:31.2	It was not really a contest, but I can never say which one has meant more to me.
1:37.1	But I got a typewriter for my sixth birthday, I think, and I started writing short stories.
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