Katharine Weber: Still Life with Monkey

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dramatic, emotional, and philosophical, Katherine Weber’s, Still Life with Monkey, is a profound book written in the old style, with depths orchestrated by the author.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:10.0	Where would we be without books?
0:13.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:17.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:28.6	This is Bookworm.
0:30.6	Today, I'm very happy that my guest is Catherine Weber.
0:35.6	Although Catherine has written six novels, her newest still life with
0:46.1	monkey is the first I've read. I always heard her name. Her titles were completely alluring to me. I had a galley of her very
0:58.4	first book. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. That book had quotes from Iris
1:07.8	Murdoch and May Sarton, people who never give quotes.
1:13.0	Somehow I've never read her before.
1:15.7	And Still Life with Monkey, Write it down right now.
1:19.7	It gave me so much pleasure.
1:25.2	It's a paperback original.
1:27.4	It's published by Paul Dry Books, the best book
1:33.8	publicist in the world. Nicole Dewey said to me, this is a book for you. And I would never doubt Nicole, over the 30 years of bookworm,
1:49.2	she has recommended some of the best unknown books to me,
1:54.0	so I trust her.
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