Mark Richard: House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
Busy writing for film and television, for his first book in over a decade, Mark Richard provides a decidedly unconventional autobiography, a spiritual journey through some of the most unusual underworlds the soul can encounter...
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.1 | Boots! |
| 0:09.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:13.0 | Where would we be without Gutenberg? |
| 0:16.7 | Even the thought of it's so absurd. |
| 0:20.2 | 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 to bird? |
| 0:30.6 | It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books? |
| 0:39.4 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:45.7 | Today I have as my guest, Mark Richard. |
| 0:48.9 | He is the author most recently of House of Prayer, Number Two, a writer's journey home. And let me tell |
| 0:56.8 | you, it's a wild ride. I've been waiting and waiting. He has two books of short stories, |
| 1:03.1 | the ice at the bottom of the world and charity and a novel before this, Fish Boy. But it's a long |
| 1:09.5 | time since we've had a sustained piece of work from |
| 1:12.2 | Mark Richard, and it's incredible. He is our living Mark Twain. Everyone likes to celebrate |
| 1:21.6 | Mark Twain, but they forget what a bad boy he was. |
| 1:28.2 | That's true. |
| 1:30.0 | And Mark Richard manages to capture in this the insanity of all kinds of things, including |
| 1:38.8 | the insanity of redemption, which is a marvelous thing to remember that God and the devil are lurking at every pole of the way, |
| 1:48.7 | half and half manipulating. Let's hear the opening of the book. |
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