Joy Williams: The Visiting Privilege

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The writer's writer, Joy Williams, has written a book that spans her body of work – from familiar stories to new ones, showcases her deep, natural understanding of the process of writing.

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0:00.0	Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.
0:22.4	The podcast about the unknown.
0:24.2	On the KCRW iTunes page.
0:30.3	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannon Foundation.
0:34.2	Boots.
0:42.3	Where would we be without boos? Where would we be without good?
0:45.3	No, Timberd.
0:46.3	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:53.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
1:01.8	Today I'm extraordinarily overwhelmed because I have Joy Williams here with me, one of my very favorite writers about her book of short stories, new and collected.
1:23.5	It's called The Visiting Privilege. It's published by Knopf.
1:27.5	There are 33 of the old stories from three books that were published before and 13 new ones.
1:38.0	But my feeling about her is sort of, oh, it comes from before knowledge.
1:47.0	When I read her stories, they take me to places that I didn't know could be gotten
1:54.0	to.
1:55.0	And so as a result, I feel more intimate with her than I do with many other writers.
2:04.8	I thought so that people would have an idea of what they're in for.
2:11.3	We would first hear you read a story called souvenir.
2:17.0	And I think it's an extraordinary story. Now many of her
2:24.0	stories are somewhat spooky and in this case she takes her characters to
2:31.7	Cornwall which is famous for ghost stories. They are tourists, and they
2:38.9	even compare the ghost stories of Cornwall to the ghost stories of Wales. Now, these people then
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