Hearby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.

The podcast about the unknown.

On the KCRW iTunes page.

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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 be without books?

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

I'm very happy to have two writers today as my guests.

They've put together a book called Selected Tweets. you can open it in either direction. One cover has

silver letters. It says selected tweets, Tal Lin, and on the opposite cover, selected tweets in

gold letters by Mira Gonzalez.

Tal Lynn and Mira Gonzalez are my guests,

and we're talking about selected tweets,

and we're going to take up the battle to see in what ways tweeting can be a literary and poetic form. Now, first of all, my two guests have both

been in an anthology which is called 40 likely to die before 40. And when I saw the title, I thought,

gee, that's a harsh prediction.

How do you feel about that kind of characterization of what's being called Alt-lit?

I didn't like that title of the anthology.

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