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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 Sloverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, my guest is Robert Stone, the author, most recently, of Prime Green, remembering the 60s.

He's been a guest on the show many times,

and I'm particularly happy to see him

because this book returns him to the period

that gave birth to his first two novels.

Those were a hall of mirrors and dog soldiers.

The novels that followed were a flag for sunrise,

Children of Light, Outer Bridge Reach, a book for sunrise, children of light, outer bridge reach,

a book of stories, Bear and his daughter, another novel, Damascus Gate,

and the last one was Bay of Souls.

Now, I'm very curious.

Were you resistant to the idea of remembering this period and the form of a memoir?

Well, I had to make a decision about whether to sort of interrupt getting my, the process of getting my fiction done and do it.

And I thought of writing something about my earlier life because my childhood was strange,

even stranger than anything that happened in the 60s.

But I decided that I would start here.

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