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You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed.

Or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

From KCRW, Santa Monica,

I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is

Bookworm. Today I'm happy to

have as my guest, Riggie

Du Corne, whose newest novel

Gazelle has been published

by Knopf.

She's been a very loved guest on the program,

and she has among her books a trilogy of novels entering fire, the fountains of Neptune,

and the Jade Cabinet. Her short stories, or at least the first group of them, were gathered

together in the complete butcher's tale. She's the author of Phosphor in Dreamland, The Fan

Maker's Inquisition. There is a book-length series of interconnected essays called The Monstrous

and the Marvelous, which was published by City Lights.

The word desire was an earlier book of short stories, and now Gazelle, which in many ways

seems like the most, in certain ways, the most linear of the book so far.

And yet it ends with a prediction, in a sense,

that the book is meant to give birth to something non-linear.

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