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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without Gutenberg?

Even the thought of it's so absurd.

Where would we be without boos. Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without books?

Where would we be?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberg.

It's a rhetorical question, sir,

but where would we need without books?

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

Today, my guest is Michelle Latiole.

She's a writer who lives in Los Angeles.

Her new book is called Widow.

It's a collection of stories. It's published by the

remarkable Bellevue literary press. And it's very exciting when a writer who is known in Los Angeles,

but not known to the larger world,

appears on the cover of the New York Times book review,

which Michelle did, sharing that cover with a review of Joyce Carroll Oates's new book

because both of them have written about the death of a husband.

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