Lannan Readings & Conversations
T. Coraghessan Boyle
with Michael SilverblattWednesday May 10 2006
Reading, May 10, 2006
Conversation with Michael Silverblatt, April 10, 2006
Downloadable Podcast of this event is now available.
The author of seventeen books of fiction, Boyle's themes range dramatically from Alfred Kinsey's influence on sexual and societal mores in The Inner Circle, to a down and out California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life that decides to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving interior of Alaska in Drop City.
His latest book, Tooth and Claw, is a collection of fourteen stories which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, and includes such whimsical tales as The Kind Assassin, about a radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep and Dogology, about a woman who becomes so obsessed with man's best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays.
Michael Silverblatt is the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, which he created in 1989 for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. He has participated in numerous Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and A.S. Byatt, among others. Bookworm airs locally on KSFR 101.1FM every Sunday at 1:30pm.
