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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No to bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we need without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblot, and this is Bookworm.

Today I'm talking to Mark Z. Danielowski about The Little Blue K kite. It's his most recent book, but it was published

several months ago. We decided that we would do it on Bookworm at this time because we're

doing the show out of our house. I'm talking to Mark on the phone.

You're probably listening at home instead of in your car and your children are home.

The little blue kite, among other things, is a children's book. And I thought that our conversation might help you to have a

conversation with your children when you read this book to them. First, Mark, welcome.

It's a pleasure to be here and not be here at the same time.

Mark has been talking with us since House of Leaves, his first big novel, his breakthrough book, which I'm told by his publisher still sells steadily.

It's one of those very rare things,

a literary bestseller.

It's still beloved not only by its audience

and by classrooms,

but its readers read it again and again and again,

finding tidbits.

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