Patrick deWitt: French Exit

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

French Exit by Patrick deWitt, a vastly amusing novel about a spider woman.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No to bird.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we be without books?
0:24.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I am Michael Silverblatt.
0:31.0	This is Bookworm, and today I'm happy to have as my guest, Patrick DeWitt.
0:38.6	He has been on the show before, but I am happy to tell you that his second book, a Western
0:48.7	called The Sisters Brothers, sort of like the James Brothers, but the Sisters Brothers, has been made into a movie.
0:58.0	I think it's John C. Riley and Halkin Phoenix.
1:02.1	The new book is called French Exit.
1:05.9	It's by, once again, my guest, Patrick DeWitt.
1:10.7	Its subtitle, or its description, is a tragedy of manners.
1:16.8	Now, let's take a step back.
1:21.3	I know what a comedy of manners is.
1:24.4	That was the importance of being earnest, yeah?
1:28.3	Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
1:29.3	And then after Oscar Wilde, there was something called a comedy of menace.
1:38.3	And that was when Harold Pinter wrote the birthday party and the homecoming.
1:46.6	They were called by critics mostly, not by Pinter, a comedy of menace.
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