Michelle Huneven: ‘Search’

Bookworm

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Los Angeles-based author Michelle Huneven joins Evan Kleiman to discuss her latest book, “Search.” In this engaging and funny literary fiction novel, main character Dana Potowski writes a memoir that describes the steps of her Unitarian Universalist Church congregation’s year-long search for its new minister and the challenges they encounter.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.7	Boots!
0:08.8	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.6	Where would we be without good?
0:14.8	No, Tintuberg.
0:16.4	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.7	But where would we be without books?
0:24.8	Hello, and welcome back to Bookworm. I'm Evan Klyman, sitting in for Michael Silverblatt.
0:30.9	My usual beat is a host of good food, a show that looks at life through the lens of food.
0:36.5	This week, I'm in conversation with
0:38.3	L.A. based writer Michelle Hennivan. She's the author of the recently released Search, a novel.
0:45.0	She's also written for other books, Round Rock, James Land, blame, and off course. Her books
0:51.6	have been New York Times notable books and finalists for the Los Angeles
0:55.8	Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. I love her books for lots of reasons.
1:03.0	They're sly and sometimes outright hilarious. They deeply explore Los Angeles, both in terms of
1:10.4	place and people. And she always seems to use
1:13.9	food as a way into her character's lives and the milieu they inhabit. Sometimes the line
1:20.4	seems pretty thin between Michelle herself and her novels. Welcome, Michelle. Thank you so much for having me, Evan. Happy to be here.
1:31.3	Is that a fair statement about the line between you and your novels being at times pretty thin?
1:37.9	Well, especially with this last novel search, not so much with blame, which had a woman who killed two people and went to prison.
1:47.2	That was totally fictional.
1:50.0	However, Dana, in search, I had a lot of fun choosing a lot of things from my own life to
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