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KCRW APRIL HIGHLIGHTS 2006
For Immediate Release: April 1, 2006;
Media Contacts: Sarah Spitz, Debbie Adler (310) 450-5183
CONTENTS: ON AIR...
* April Bookworm Schedule
* Passover Special Programming
* Live on Cafe LA: Eric Whitacre
LIVE...
* Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
* KCRW and KCRW.com Presents
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ON AIR AT KCRW. . .
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April 2006 Bookworm Schedule
April 6 * KURT VONNEGUT, A Man without a Country (7 Stories)
In his eighties, Kurt Vonnegut is still the magnificent satirist, critic, dreamer and grouch who has been astonishing us from the nineteen-sixties on. Here, he speaks as a socialist disappointed by human behavior, our country and our times. He wants to go home.
April 13 * ELLIOT PERLMAN, The Reasons I Won t Be Coming (Riverhead)
An unusual interview in which Elliot Perlman (author of an impressive novel, 7 Types of Ambiguity) is asked to be as articulate and impressive as his work. The reticent Perlman accepts the challenge and speaks of the kinds of personal integrity and vision that are important to him as an artist.
April 20 * DARA HORN, The World to Come (Norton)
Dara Horn, a writer who specializes in Yiddish literature and culture, explores the metaphysical underpinnings of her new novel. We begin with the theft of a Chagall painting, proceed to the plight of Jewish artists under Stalin, the fate of the extended family and the instruction of unborn infants in heaven who are awaiting the world to come.
April 27 * STEPHEN WRIGHT, The Amalgamation Polka (Knopf)
Stephen Wright has written a Civil War novel and has mastered all the prose styles of classic American literature (Melville, Twain, Stowe, et al). Here, we explore the profusion of voices and attitudes that characterized pre-P.C. America: abolitionists, freed slaves, plantation masters, snake-oil salesmen, con men, ministers and utopians. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a democratic culture in which every shade of opinion has a voice and should be heard.
Bookworm host, MICHAEL SILVERBLATT, interviews writers of fiction and poetry -- the established, new, and emerging -- with insight and precision. Bookworm airs on KCRW 89.9 FM and KCRW.com on Thursdays from 2:30 to 3:00pm. Each program is archived online and On Demand at www.KCRW.com.
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Passover Special Programming
Tuesday, April 11 at 7:30 PM
The Four Questions, written by Allegra Goodman, an excerpt from her novel, The Family Markowitz, read by Mandy Patinkin and his wife, Kathryn Grody from KCRW's series, "Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New".
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Live on Café LA with host Tom Schnabel
Sunday, April 9 at 1 PM
For a guy who first joined the choir because he thought it would be a good place to meet girls, Eric Whitacre has come a long way. He wound up smitten, not by female pulchritude but by the sumptuous and levitational beauty of choral music. His new CD, Cloudburst, with texts by authors as diverse as Octavio Paz and E.E. Cummings, features an impeccable performance by the group Polyphony, directed by Steven Layton. It is a stunning achievement, and choral music of an altogether other dimension. Eric joins Tom Schnabel on Café LA on Sunday, April 9 at 1 PM.
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KCRW LIVE EVENTS. . .
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KCRW Personalities Featured at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Join KCRW personalities Michael Silverblatt, Nic Harcourt, Robert Scheer and Arianna Huffington at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Saturday and Sunday, April 29th and 30th on the UCLA Campus. It s a two-day celebration of the written word and one of the country s premier literary events. KCRW programmers will be live and in-conversation with some of today s hottest fiction and non-fiction writers. In addition, there will be special lectures by celebrated authors, writing workshops, and storytelling at two stages in the children s area. Find more information at http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/
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KCRW.com Presents
Fri, April 7 * DUNCAN SHEIK at Swedish American Hall in SF
Sun, April 9 * ELBOW at The Independent in SF
Thurs, April 13 * SI*SE at SOB'S in NYC
Sat, April 22 * MARIA TAYLOR at Café Du Nord in SF
Mon, April 24 * TRESSPASSERS WILLIAM at Make Out Room in SF
Sat, May 13 * BRAZILIAN GIRLS at The Fillmore in SF
KCRW.com Presents... the following live events around Southern CA
Fri, March 31 * NOUS NON PLUS at Spaceland
Fri, March 31 * LUCINDA WILLIAMS at the El Rey Theatre
Fri, March 31 * HER SPACE HOLIDAY at the Troubadour
Sat, April 1 * JENNY LEWIS with THE WATSON TWINS at the Orpheum Theater
Sat, April 1 * IV THIEVES (formerly Nic Armstrong and the Thieves) at Spaceland
Sun, April 2 * SIA at the Troubadour
Tues, April 4 * BITTER:SWEET at Temple Bar
Tues, April 4 * VAN HUNT at the Roxy
Sat, April 8 * ELBOW at The Avalon
Sun, April 9 * SONDRE LERCHE at The Troubadour
Wed, April 12 * FRUIT BATS at The Troubadour
Thurs, April 13 * THE 88 at the Troubadour
Fri, April 14 * TRESPASSERS WILLIAM at The Fold in Tangier
Fri, April 14 * THE GREENHORNES at The Troubadour
Sat, April 15 * THE GREENHORNES at The Glass House
Sat, April 15 * LILA DOWNS at The El Rey
Wed, April 19 * JOSH ROUSE at the Henry Fonda Theater
Thurs, April 20 * MARIA TAYLOR at The Echo
Fri, April 21 * GRAM RABBIT at The Echo
Sat, April 22 * THE ELECTED at The El Rey Theatre
Sat, April 22 * CHARANGA CAKEWALK at The Conga Room
Sat, April 22 * GRAM RABBIT at Pappy & Harriet s in Pioneertown
Sun, April 23 * LUKA BLOOM at The Knitting Factory
Sun, April 23 * DAVID SEDARIS at the Long Beach Terrace Theater
Mon, April 24 * JACKIE GREENE at The Mint
Tues, April 25 * JACKIE GREENE at The Mint
Wed, April 26 * AM at the Hotel Café
Sat, April 29 * SHELBY LYNNE at Pappy & Harriet s in Pioneertown
Sun, April 30 * ATERCIOPELADOS at The Grove in Anaheim
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