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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:08.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.0 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:15.0 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.0 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.9 | From KCRW, Santa Monica. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Michael Silverblatt, |
| 0:26.1 | and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, the |
| 0:28.4 | absolutely mind-boggling |
| 0:30.6 | Richard Price is with me. |
| 0:32.5 | His new novel, |
| 0:33.7 | Lush Life, |
| 0:34.9 | you know, |
| 0:35.9 | each time, |
| 0:39.0 | it's like poison for me. Because officially, you know, each time it's like poison for me. |
| 0:43.6 | Because officially, you know, I don't like thrillers or police proceed. |
| 0:44.8 | I don't like any of it. |
| 0:46.2 | You know, it's not for me. |
| 0:54.0 | And then I start to read your books, and it's the profusion of language and setting and detail and time and character, and it's registered |
| 0:57.3 | simultaneously and makes me think that you have the metabolism of a hummingbird, that your |
| 1:04.1 | responsiveness to an environment is so intense that not only are you capable of figuring out how to write sentences that tell you |
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