Lydia Millet: Magnificence

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Lydia Millet's novels, characters pass from the comedy of daily life to the beauty of visionary experience.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Tintuberg.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:23.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.6	Today, I'm very excited to be talking to Lydia Millett.
0:33.6	She's a writer I've been reading for a long time.
0:36.6	She's written one, two, three, four, five, eleven books, is it?
0:41.7	Twelve?
0:43.9	And constantly publishing them gradually with larger and larger pressures until her most
0:51.1	recent three books are a trilogy.
0:53.5	The last two have been published by Norton. Together, these. until her most recent three books are a trilogy.
0:54.3	The last two have been published by Norton.
0:57.5	Together these are their titles, How the Dead Dream, Ghost Lights, and Magnificence
1:04.2	Most Recently.
1:06.3	Magnificence was chosen by the LA Times as one of its five best novels of the year and I happen to
1:13.4	agree this is Lydia Millett now tell me is there a collective name for the three
1:20.0	volumes do you have one I do not have one perhaps you'd like to suggest one
1:24.9	oh no the pressure.
1:28.4	I know.
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