T.C. Boyle: When the Killing's Done

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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When the Killing's Done (Viking)
T.C. Boyle's newest novel contains elements of sea-adventure story and eco-thriller. Bringing together the themes of his life's work, he explores the interstices of the green-movement and the animal rights community...

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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 booms?
0:12.0	Where would we be without Gutenberg?
0:16.0	Even the thought of it so absurd?
0:20.0	Where would we be without books
0:22.9	where would we be without books
0:26.1	where would we be without good
0:29.6	no tinderberg
0:30.9	it's a rhetorical question sir
0:34.4	but where would we need without books?
0:39.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:45.5	My guest today is T.C. Boyle. His new book is When the Killings Done, and I think it's one of his
0:52.1	very best books. But I love it when authors give a book that culminates several of their other books and several of the themes that they've embarked upon.
1:03.7	I don't really want to compare whether the women is better than when the killings done.
1:08.6	That would be foolish.
1:09.9	I love the fact that you've brought
1:12.4	so many concerns into one book in new forms. One of the things I love is that the book opens
1:21.5	with really a sea adventure. I've never seen you do this before. The nature writing is as good as Jack London's,
1:29.6	and it seemed to me to be a page-turning departure. Well, thank you so much, Michael. Let me say this
1:37.4	about the sea. You know, I live near the sea, and I have a healthy respect for it. That is,
1:43.6	terror of.
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