Bookworm

KCRW

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

Episodes

Friends of Michael

Chapter 9: Grief and Loss

Poetry

The Story of America, Pt. 3

The Story of America, Pt. 2

The Story of America, Pt. 1

The Confederacy of Bookworms

The Nobel Laureates, Pt.2

The Nobel Laureates, Pt.1

The Arc of Bookworm

Michelle Huneven: ‘Search’

Natalia Molina: ‘A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community’

Emily Skillings and John Yau: John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works” (Re-air)

Rita Dove: “Playlist for the Apocalypse” (Re-air)

Robert Jones, Jr.: “The Prophets” (Re-air)

Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’

Tobias Wolff on Harry Crews’ ‘A Childhood: The Biography of a Place’

Tao Lin’s ‘Leave Society’ shifts the author’s perspective to love and kindness

Zac Smith’s ‘Everything is Totally Fine,’ the book that reopened Tao Lin’s Muumuu House

Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half