Summary
Sandi Tan speaks about writing “Lurkers” with a gut feeling, and following an emotional momentum.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.0 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Tenderberg. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we need without books? |
| 0:24.2 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is bookworm. |
| 0:32.2 | Today, I'm happy to have Sandy Tan as my guest. |
| 0:38.4 | She is both a novelist. |
| 0:41.2 | She's just published her second novel, Lurkers from Soho Press. |
| 0:46.9 | She wrote a previous novel, The Black Isle. |
| 0:50.1 | And she's made a film that won all sorts of awards called Shirkers. |
| 0:58.7 | It's a documentary feature. |
| 1:00.7 | I saw it. |
| 1:01.8 | Oh, you did? |
| 1:02.4 | Okay. |
| 1:02.7 | It's wonderful. |
| 1:03.4 | It felt short. |
| 1:04.2 | A documentary feature means that it's more than... |
| 1:08.0 | It just means that it's longer than 70 minutes. |
| 1:11.0 | It's not strictly a traditional documentary. |
| 1:14.0 | No, it's very untraditional, very beautiful, and deals with time very originally, |
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