Manuel Munoz: What You See in the Dark

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What You See in the Dark (Algonquin)
Manuel Muñoz imagines a crime of passion set in the Central Valley, which he deviously juxtaposes with the mayhem of Hitchcock's Psycho.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:13.0	Where would we be without Gutenberg?
0:16.7	Even the thought of it's so absurd.
0:20.3	Where would we be without boos, where would we be without books?
0:23.6	Where would we be without books?
0:25.8	Where would we be?
0:27.3	Where would we be without good?
0:29.4	No to bird.
0:31.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir,
0:34.3	but where would we need without books?
0:38.2	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:44.9	Today, I'm very pleased to have us my guest, Manuel Munoz, author most recently of
0:51.2	what you see in the dark, his first novel. The book centers on a crime of passion,
0:56.5	but here that crime has been carefully overlaid onto the plot of the Hitchcock thriller, Psycho.
1:03.5	Munoz is also the author of two powerful short story collections, ZigZagger and the Faith
1:10.1	Healer of Olive Avenue.
1:12.3	Now, immediately, it seems to me that you came on the scene with an intense bravery
1:19.5	about speaking about aspects of your community, the Mexican-American community, and its possible sexualities,
1:30.2	a bravery that I don't think anyone can find anywhere else.
1:35.3	How did you become so brave?
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