Valeria Luiselli: The Story of My Teeth

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Originally commissioned to write a novel for Jumex, a Mexican beverage company and supporter of the arts, Luiselli instead chose to write a novel for Jumex's factory workers.

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0:00.0	Podcast. Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous, intellectually ravenous podcast
0:08.3	from the editors of the Believer magazine. Part of poetry is learning how to speak. Chili, Billy,
0:15.2	Chili Billy. I am also a horse. I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.
0:23.1	The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.
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0:31.6	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:35.6	Boots. Where would we be without boos?
0:42.3	Where would we be without good?
0:46.3	No, Tzuberg.
0:48.3	It's a rhetorical question, sir,
0:51.3	but where would we be without books?
0:55.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.
1:01.8	Today, my guest is Valeria Luiselli.
1:06.1	One year ago, approximately today, my guest was Valeria Louisseum.
1:12.9	She had won then the Art Sidenbaum Prize for first novel, and this year her newest book,
1:20.1	The Story of My Teeth.
1:24.4	I love this title.
1:26.0	Has won the LA Times Book Award for Fiction.
1:30.0	Now, I noticed that the story of our teeth is the story of our life, yes?
1:37.9	Well, hi, Michael, first.
1:39.8	I'm so happy to be back here with you after a year.
1:43.0	And yes, definitely. I mean, the story of my teeth
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