Valeria Luiselli: Faces in the Crowd

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Valeria Luiselli's first novel reminds us of what it's like to be young and in love with literature.

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1:01.0	You know, every year we have something called the Los Angeles Times Book Festival.
1:09.0	And it's, you know, for readers, it it is it's a festival writers from all
1:14.8	over come read here join panels speak here and there is also a literary award
1:23.1	I'm very you know proud honored and thrilled to have the winner of the Art Seidenbaum first novel prize here with me.
1:33.2	Her name is Valeria Louiselle.
1:37.0	The book is called Faces in the Crowd.
1:39.9	It makes me particularly happy because the book comes from one of my favorite of the literary presses, Coffee House Press.
1:50.7	And let's see.
1:53.1	Can you sort of describe the book?
1:58.3	Yeah, I can certainly try to describe the book.
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