Peter Orner: Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Peter Orner says his poignantly distilled, often tiny short stories are attempts to "create silence on the page."

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No to turn.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.0	But where would we need without books?
0:23.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.6	Today, my guest is Peter Orner.
0:32.6	His first book came out around 12 years ago.
0:35.6	It's called Esther's stories, and ever since it
0:39.3	appeared, I've been wanting to talk to him. Never have. And Bidi introduced me to the book and
0:45.3	said it was the best book of short fiction that she had read of this generation of writers.
0:52.3	Now he has written a new book of short stories.
0:56.0	This has been waited for for 10 years
0:59.0	called Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge.
1:02.0	It's published by Little Brown.
1:04.0	And his first book of stories, Esther's stories,
1:07.0	has been republished.
1:09.0	Now, this is a matter of ghosts and voices. One of the writers
1:15.6	about the book has called it a seance that you raise voices. Tell me, sometimes these stories
1:23.9	are fragments and fragments of memory, and they allow an interplay of living people,
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