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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good in bird?

It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we need without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is book for him.

And I'm here to tell you that sometimes wonderful things come in the mail, not just bills, not just tax forms.

I received a book by my guest, Warren Lerer.

It's called A Life in Books, The Rise and Fall of Blue Mobley.

And it has a subtitle,

The Long-Aided Memoir in retrospective monograph featuring all a hundred and one of Blue Mowbris' books.

And then another, an illuminated novel written and designed by Warren Lerrer.

And the whole begins to take on the aspect of a circus poster.

You know, all sorts of promises being made, the long-awaited.

No one's been waiting for the rise and fall of Blue Mobley.

Who was Blue Mobley?

Blue Mobley is a writer who started out as a journalist,

became an experimental novelist,

an accidental best-selling author,

and moved into becoming a pop culture pundit,

and now finds himself in prison an unindicted prisoner for refusing to reveal

the name of a confidential source.

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