Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.

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.

From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today I'm very happy to have with me William T. Volman, who's written a book called Writing

Toward Everywhere. It's published by Echo,

and it's one of his nonfiction books.

His novel, well, really, it's a collection of samples and slices.

Europe Central won the National Book Award.

His recent books include Poor People, another work of documentation.

He's done a recent small book about Copernicus.

There is the seven-volume rising up and rising down,

some thoughts on violence, freedom, and urgent means,

which has been put in a single, abridged paperback volume, also by Echo,

and many novels as well that include an ongoing history of the North American continent and alternating virtually with stories about the present. This book is a book about train hopping, and it kind of

amazes me.

I've been reading reviews of this book,

and the reviewers seem not to notice

that the very sentences of the book

are like a train hopping experience.

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