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but where would we be without books? From KCRW and kCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt and this is bookworm.

Today we'll revisit our conversation with Juno Diaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her.

Juno Diaz's characters are gritty and exciting. The perfect match with comic artist

Jaime Hernandez's equally gritty and exciting illustrations. The two have come together for a new

special collector's hardcover edition of This Is How You Lose Her. Where we left the brief, wondrous life of Oscar Well was in the knowledge that you could bury yourself in books and disappear as a human being,

where you could bury yourself in sex and disappear as a soulful being, and both of the characters are experiencing a certain kind of damnation.

Here we are in a set of stories, all of which are about lying and cheating and betrayal,

and the solution, it turns out, is to tell the truth, is to write about the problem.

What does someone do who's not a writer, Juno?

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