Summary
Tom Drury latest novel follows a resident of his fictional Grouse County who has moved to Los Angeles to reunite with his mother, co-star of a New-Agey TV series.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:03.5 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without boos? |
| 0:12.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Timberd. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir. |
| 0:19.0 | But where would we need without books? |
| 0:23.7 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm. |
| 0:29.9 | Today, my guest is Tom Drury. |
| 0:32.2 | His most recent book is called Pacific. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a book, which, along with two earlier books, I'd say, defines the modern |
| 0:42.9 | Midwestern sensibility. The first book was The End of Vandalism, a more recent one involving |
| 0:49.8 | the same characters, Hunts in Dreams, and now Pacific. Now, people are talking about the Midwest again |
| 0:57.3 | because the Great Gatsby has come back. Would you care to differentiate your Midwest from F. Scott |
| 1:05.1 | Fitzgeralds? I would just say my Midwest is, you know, I don't think of it as my Midwest. I think of it as |
| 1:13.2 | the Midwest is to me like a stage. It's a place I know very well physically. I grew up in |
| 1:20.9 | small towns, which allows you to write about people that know each other very well. And that makes for a kind of a natural storytelling style |
| 1:30.3 | because people think they know each other's stories, |
| 1:33.3 | even if they don't have them right necessarily. |
| 1:36.3 | But I have never felt like I'm trying to represent the Midwest |
| 1:40.3 | or say this is what Midwesterners are like |
| 1:43.3 | any more than when I write about California, |
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