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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

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.

This is Bookworm, and today my guest is Otessa Moschfeg.

She is the author of three books.

I'll name them in order. The first McGlew won the Fence Fiction Prize.

It's a novella, it's a sea-going yarn. It's an extraordinary book about dependency and about the forces, like the ocean, the things that operate beyond one's available intention.

The second book, Eileen, is a novel.

It was nominated for the Booker Prize. And the third, the

newest book, Homestick for Another World, is a book of short stories. They've been published

in the Paris Review, in The New Yorker, and I'm very interested because I think McClue, the first, is a contemporary

classic.

Eileen has been given a certain kind of pride of place by nomination for one of the

internationally major awards.

And the third, homesick for another world, has been given the kind of attention that people get

when they get accepted by the New Yorker, by the Paris

Review.

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