Bookworm: Jeanette Winterson

If you want to hear a terrific literary interview, check out KCRW's Bookworm broadcast interview with Jeanette Winterson.

I enjoyed it so much I am trying to buy it and listen again.  "Why be happy when you can be normal," Winterson's biography, sounds like an A+ read.

Books: T. C. Boyle on Bookworms

Insights by both Boyle and Silverblatt at Bookworms are more than worth hearing or seeing.

Boyle's analogy of his own work to Kafka's Hunger Artist is worth at least two hundred quick bucks or in steadier times two thousand.

Bookworm: in recognition of Walt Whitman

Bookworm, a special at KCRW radio (Santa Monica, CA) brought together three modern poets, Eamon Grennan, Major Jackson and Pattiann Rogers to honour Walt Whitman, probably best known for Leaves of Grass.

The program is available by podcast and more than worth listening to for less than 30 minutes.

Excellent poets speaking with great affection and true understanding about Walt Whitman and sharing poems of their own.

"I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
Walt Whitman, Songs of Myself

Here is the complete text of Whitman's Song of Myself.