Nicole Krauss: Great House
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Great House (Norton)
Nicole Krauss is more sensitive to emotional textures and to characters than she is to conventional plot. Here, she speaks about how the careful maneuverings of feelings and the details that provoke feeling help to generate a structure for her new novel.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.0 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without boos? |
| 0:09.0 | Where would we be without Gootenberg? |
| 0:13.0 | Where would we be without Gutenberg? |
| 0:16.0 | Even the thought of it so absurd? |
| 0:20.0 | Where would we be without books |
| 0:22.9 | where would we be without books |
| 0:26.1 | where would we be |
| 0:27.2 | where would we be without good |
| 0:29.7 | no tipped bird |
| 0:30.9 | it's a rhetorical question sir |
| 0:34.4 | but where would we mean without books? |
| 0:39.1 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblot, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:45.3 | Today I'm pleased to have as my guest, Nicole Krause, whose new book, Great House, has recently |
| 0:51.2 | been published by Norton. It has a series of narrators, among them, a New York writer, |
| 0:57.8 | an American woman studying at Oxford, |
| 1:00.2 | and the husband of a Holocaust survivor, |
| 1:03.0 | each of them struggling to make a life after suffering a tremendous loss. |
| 1:08.2 | But that being said, I think it's important to also say that this is a book that's interested in not being a book. |
| 1:15.4 | Its characters are named infrequently. |
| 1:19.8 | Sometimes you have to guess at who they are. |
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