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Young Michael Chabon discusses his feelings about the blocked, frustrated writers and editors who people his new novel...
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| 0:00.0 | Support for Bookworm comes from Barnes & Noble. |
| 0:03.4 | Since 1990, the Discover Great New Writers Program |
| 0:06.5 | has recognized and supported the works of first-time writers. |
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| 0:22.9 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:26.8 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:30.9 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:34.3 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:38.3 | From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblad, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:43.2 | Today I'm happy to have the author of Summerland, Michael Sheban, on my show. |
| 0:48.6 | And he is the author, of course, of the amazing adventures of cavalierier and Clay and Mysteries of Pittsburgh and several |
| 0:56.2 | books of short stories. I am very fond of his work. The book is a book for, what do they call |
| 1:02.4 | them now? I think they still call them children. Not young adults? No, it's not for young adults. |
| 1:09.7 | It's not a Y.A. No, it's not a Y.A. |
| 1:11.3 | No. |
| 1:12.5 | And it interests me because some of my favorite children's books, in fact, I think most of my favorite children's books were written by people who were not children's book writers, beginning, I think, probably it's a lot earlier, with James M. Barry, with Peter Pan, |
| 1:30.2 | and of course E.B. White was not particularly known for his children's book. This season alone, |
| 1:37.0 | Isabella Yende has a children's book coming out. And Randall Jarrell had three or four swell ones. |
| 1:44.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | And... |
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