Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.

The podcast about the unknown.

On the KCRW iTunes page.

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Boots.

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No to bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

And boy, am I lucky.

Because one of the people that I continue to believe is one of my teachers is on the show today with me at Sandra

Cisneros.

Her new book is called A House of My Own, Stories from My Life, and they are, once again,

you could call the essays if you want to, but they are again vignettes and imaginary

improvisations on certain themes of home.

Sometimes books are home, sometimes relatives are home, sometimes leaving a home is home.

And it's a very moving book.

I consider Sandra to be one of my teachers

because at a time years and years ago,

when I was beginning to do the show,

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