Yannick Murphy discusses "Here They Come"

Yannick Murphy's Here They Come (Mcsweeney's, March 2006) is narrated by a 13-year-old girl growing up in a chaotic family in a ramshackle apartment in 1970's New York. The unnamed narrator lives a brutal childhood full of dysfunctional individuals: her drunken grandmother, depressed mother, deadbeat father, and the lecherous hot dog vendor with whom the narrator allows certain liberties in exchange for food.

Listen to this June 15, 2006 interview with Yannick Murphy on KCRW's Bookworm, in which she exhorts writers to "put your stink on the page."