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Lightland and You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed.

Or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read?

Hi, this is Michael Silverbladen.

Welcome to Bookworm.

I'm very excited today because my guest is Woffredo Noyedo.

He is a Philippine novelist and are...

We have a history together, in a sense.

His novel is called But for the Lovers. It was originally

published in 1970. I met him in the early 70s when I was a student at the State University

of New York at Buffalo. He was a visiting scholar and teacher of creative writing. His novel

had just come out, and he was beginning

what should have been a very bright literary career. The book had been published by the

very esteemed literary editor, Hal Sharlock at Dutton, and as it happened, the editor, the editor died. There were no further books published

by Noyedo. This book itself, but for the lovers, went out of print for many years. It

was virtually unheard of. And then, to my great delight, the Donkey Archive Press announced that it was going to be publishing

in its revived classics series, The Novel But for the Lovers.

Well, I called them up and I said, well, you know, he was a teacher of mine, and I haven't

heard of him for years.

I haven't known whether he's even been alive.

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