Summary
A stunning graphic novel by one of the medium’s greatest creators, Seth’s Clyde Fans is about people living in a memory fog, and the strange reverie that life takes on when one grows older.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:03.8 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, it's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books? |
| 0:23.9 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:30.8 | And today, I have a special guest. |
| 0:33.9 | He goes by the name of Seth, and you prefer that name, yes? |
| 0:39.1 | Well, I don't know if I prefer it anymore, but I'm stuck with it at this point. |
| 0:43.6 | It's a pseudonym I took when I was younger, and it is what I go by. |
| 0:47.3 | He's the author of a kind of magnificent book. |
| 0:53.6 | It's his biggest book, or its longest book. It's a graphic |
| 0:58.3 | novel. It's called Clyde Fans. Well, this book is a 490-some page. Yep, it's close to 500. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes. It's a graphic novel. All of my guest Seth's books |
| 1:18.2 | are attempts to retrieve a past that has eluded them. In this book, Clyde Fans, two brothers, the match card brothers, Abe and... |
| 1:36.5 | Simon. Simon. Have a fan store company that they've inherited from their father. |
| 1:48.0 | But like many publishers who didn't get on board the train, they didn't want to believe |
| 1:56.0 | that the internet might in some sense replace volumes of books, these brothers work for a fan company |
| 2:05.3 | that has rejected the possibility of moving forward into air condition. We have a picture |
| 2:13.8 | of Clyde fans in the back of the book with Seth standing in front of the Once |
| 2:22.5 | Upon a Time store. And, well, where was it? |
| 2:26.9 | Well, it was a real store. And it's funny. When I first started the book, I thought to myself, |
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