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Boots!

Where would we be without booms?

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.

Today, I'm very happy to have as my guest, Mosin Hamid.

He is a Pakistani writer.

He lives in Lahore. This is his third book. It's called

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. I liked it so much that I chose it as this month's bookworms

angel book club book. it really moved me.

And first of all, it seems a matter of honor for you that your books be brief.

Well, I like to read slowly.

And I also wind up writing quite slowly.

I like to take my time as a reader.

So for me, reading a long novel is always an enormous commitment.

Writing a long novel would be quite a task to set myself.

But I think it really comes down to a notion that I want to write books that are open to being read.

And I think if you choose not to compromise on the way you construct your sentences and you choose not to compromise on the sort of formal complexity that you want to be working

with, or the thematic complexity. One way of making books more open to readers is to make them

small. A Pakistani reader who maybe doesn't normally read literary fiction, if they see a small

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