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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No to the bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we need without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.

What a show it's going to be today. This is really special. My guest is Stephen Moore.

Let me just name some of his accomplishments.

He's one of the two people that David Foster Wallace turned to for help editing Infinite

Jest. That should be credential enough, but he also has helped Alexander Theroux through a novel or maybe two.

Two. And he wrote the first books on William Gaddis, the author of the recognitions.

Once David said to me, David Foster Wallace, about Infinite Jest,

yes, I wanted to write a long, hard book.

And that's what I like. I like long, hard books.

And he's been perhaps the most generous reviewer of this kind of book.

Stephen Moore has reviewed for the Washington Post book section and well all over the place.

He edited the review of contemporary fiction for quite a few years.

He was an editor at Dawkins Archive during their peak heyday years.

I'm really happy to be talking to him.

He's published a book called My Back Pages, the title from the Dylan song.

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