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Boots!

Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

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

I've read a thrilling book.

I don't allow a book on the show unless it thrills me, but it's hard to find some

that are really thrilling. This book, Aphasia, by my guest, Mauro Javier Cardenas, is a thrilling book.

It's his second book to be published in America. The first has the

hilarious title, The Revolutionaries Try Again. And in this book, one of the revolutionaries is

in America on the West Coast.

Some of this book takes place in Los Angeles.

Aphasia is published by the wonderful people at Faris-Strauss-Strauss-S-Rouroo,

and it's a pleasure to see a book as interesting and experimental as aphasia being published today.

Now, tell me, would you mind, Malro, this book has a design.

Could you describe it?

The first impulse of the book that I wrote about, it was the one where Antonio is alone in his office, prudential investments, and he is trying to write about his childhood while he's trying to avoid calls from the bail bondsman that wants his money

because his sister has gone missing and has breaking the bond contract.

And that, I didn't write that section with any intention, with any sort of larger narrative in mind, and that

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