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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
Seattle's own "action figure librarian" and best-selling author Nancy Pearl sits down each month with top writers from around the country for conversations about books and the process and art of writing. There's no one better qualified than Nancy to discuss books and writing, bringing an informed reader's perspective to lively conversation and in-depth dialogs about all things literary. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl is filmed monthly at the University Bookstore in Seattle. More information about this show
There are 67 videos to watch.
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Book Lust Web Extra: Paul Zelinsky 1/14/2010
A half-hour segment simply wasn`t enough to contain all the interesting questions Nancy had for author and illustrator Paul Zelinsky. Please enjoy this extended interview as Paul answers Nancy`s questions through drawings. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Paul Zelinsky 1/14/2010
Nancy`s guest is Paul O. Zelinsky, an American author and illustrator of children`s books. Zelinsky is one of the most highly acclaimed illustrators working today. He has received a Caldecott Medal for his telling of Rapunzel, and three Caldecott Honors, for Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, and Swamp Angel, which the New York Times Book Review called "in all ways superb." Zelinsky is noted not only for the richness and experimental nature of his artwork, but also for his versatility. As Zelinsky told Horn Book interviewers Sylvia and Kenneth Marantz, "I try to make the book talk, as it talks to me, and not worry whether it is in my style or not.... I get a kick out of doing each book differently." |
Book Lust Web Extra: Sarah Dunant 12/10/2009
A half-hour segment simply wasn`t enough to contain all the interesting questions Nancy had for historical fictionalist Sarah Dunant. Please enjoy this extended interview. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Sarah Dunant 12/10/2009
Nancy`s guest this month is novelist Sarah Dunant. Dunant is the author of the international bestseller "The Birth of Venus", which has received major worldwide acclaim and "In the Company of the Courtesan". With the publication of "Sacred Hearts", she rounds out a Renaissance trilogy bringing voice to the lives of three different women in three different historical contexts. Sarah Dunant`s tireless research has resulted in vivid reconstructions of womens` secret histories in the characters of a Florentine Noblewoman, a Venetian Courtesan and the Sisters of Santa Caterina. Dunant has two daughters, and lives in London and Florence.
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Paul Collins 11/13/2009
Host Nancy Pearl interviews Paul Collins, an author specializing in science writing, antiquarian literature, reviewing and memoir. His latest book is The Book of William: How Shakespeare`s First Folio Conquered the World. His past books include The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine and Banvard`s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn`t Change the World. His five books have appeared in eight languages. In addition to appearing regularly on NPR`s Weekend Edition as their "literary detective" on odd and forgotten old books, he edits the Collins Library imprint of McSweeney`s Books. |
Book Lust Speed Questions: Craig Johnson 10/8/2009
For a little insight into Wyoming mystery writer Craig Johnson's literary inspirations, follow along as Nancy Pearl asks him a lightning round of speed questions. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Craig Johnson 10/8/2009
Host Nancy Pearl interviews Craig Johnson, a mystery writer from Wyoming. Mr. Johnson has received both critical and popular praise for his novels The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, Kindness Goes Unpunished, Another Man`s Moccasins and The Dark Horse. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Michael Perry 9/10/2009
Nancy`s guest is Michael Perry, author of the bestselling memoirs Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, Truck: A Love Story, and Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting. Perry lives in rural Wisconsin. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Garth Stein 8/13/2009
Garth Stein's third novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, which is told from the perspective of Enzo, a dog with heart, was both a runaway best seller and was selected by Starbucks as its Summer Book Pick for 2008. OregonLive.com called it "A fable with a heart that casts a sleeping spell on the readers' native cynicism and persuades us to dust off old questions about faith and humankind's better traits." |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Susan Wiggs 7/16/2009
Nancy Pearl's guest is bestselling author Susan Wiggs. Wiggs' historical romance novels have given her a reputation for being a consummate story teller with a gift for developing beautifully rendered characters. Publishers Weekly says, "Wiggs writes with refreshingly honest emotion," and Booklist characterizes her books as "real and true and unforgettable." In her latest novel, "Just Breathe", Wiggs keeps her reputation going with the story Sarah Moon, a succesful cartoonist whose world is turned upside down when she discovers that her five year marriage has gone wrong. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Azar Nafisi 6/11/2009
Host Nancy Pearl interviews bestselling memoirist Azar Nafisi about her memoir, Things I've Been Silent About. The book is a deeply personal reflection and exploration of a young girl's pain over family secrets and a mother's lost life, a young woman's discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, and the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval. Nafisi also wrote Reading Lolita in Tehran. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Dana Stabenow 5/13/2009
Nancy's guest is "New York Times" bestseller and Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow. Stabenow is the author of sixteen Kate Shugak mysteries, four Liam Campbell mysteries, three science fiction novels, and two thrillers. Stabenow was born, raised, and lives in Alaska, which is the setting for many of her books. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Philip Gourevitch 4/8/2009
Nancy's guest is award-winning author Philip Gourevitch. Gourevitch is a staff writer for the New Yorker, where he has written several series of articles about the Rwandan genocide. In 1998, Gourevitch published his first book, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda," in which he explores the Rwandan tragedy in depth. He is the also editor of "The Paris Review" and author of "A Cold Case." |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring M. T. Anderson 3/12/2009
Nancy's guest is award-winning author M.T. Anderson. Anderson is the author of several books for children and young adults, including "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation", an ultra-challenging, two-volume novel. Volume 1, "The Pox Party," won the 2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and Volume 2, "The Kingdom On The Waves," was recently published to further acclaim. Anderson's novel "Feed" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Mark Siegel 2/12/2009
Nancy's guest is Mark Siegel, the editorial director of :01 First Second Books, which publishes graphic novels for all ages. Siegel's goal with :01 First Second, is to upgrade the editorial process and the art direction that go into making book-length comics. He has signed on talented storytellers, including prize-winning novelists and non-fiction writers, top playwrights and screenwriters. On the artistic side, he has also assembled an inspiring line-up of exceptional talents from all over the world. Siegel himself is an accomplished book illustrator. His books in print to date are "Seadogs, An Opic Ocean Operetta", "Long Night Moon", and "To Dance, A Ballerina's Graphic Novel." |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Stephen Carter 1/8/2009
Nancy's guest is Stephen L. Carter, a professor of law at Yale University and one of the country's leading black academics. Mr Carter's bestselling first novel, "The Emperor of Ocean Park" (2002), explored the secrets of the bench; his second, "New England White" (2007), the highest levels of East Coast academe. With punch, as well as good timing, his new book, "Palace Council", takes on American politics at its most pungent and most powerful. "Palace Council," a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam, turns our assumptions inside out and reminds us how the struggles of that era set the stage for America today. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Gina Nahai 12/11/2008
Nancy's guest is best-selling author Gina Nahai. In her latest book, "Caspian Rain," Nahai explores the struggles of an Iranian family in the decade before the Islamic revolution. The story is narrated by twelve-year old Yaas, who spends her childhood navigating the many layers of Iranian society. Nahai is the author of Sunday's Silence, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith (finalist for the Orange Prize), and Cry of the Peacock. She is also a contributing author to The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt, which won the 2005 Jewish Book Award. Her novels have been translated into sixteen languages and have been studied at a wide variety of educational establishments. Nahai's writings have appeared in many national publications and she has been a judge for the LA Times Book Awards. She is also a frequent lecturer on the politics of the Middle East and has guest hosted on NPR. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Lee Child 11/13/2008
Nancy's guest is British thriller writer Lee Child, who talks about his latest Jack Reacher story, Nothing to Lose. Child is the author of twelve Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and Bad Luck and Trouble. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero Awards for Best Novel. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his thirteenth Jack Reacher thriller. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Brian Hall 10/9/2008
Nancy's guest is author Brian Hall, whose latest novel, "Fall of Frost," is a fictionalization of the life of poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). In "Fall of Frost," Hall presents a vision of Robert Frost as an unsuccessful farmer, tormented father, distanced husband and, most of all, a poet confronting the world and struggling to make sense, through his work, of what he cannot otherwise grasp. Like Frost's poetry, Hall's novel is deceptively simple and magnificently sad. Brian Hall is the author of three novels, including, "I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company," his acclaimed story of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as three works of nonfiction. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Susan Linn 9/11/2008
Nancy's guest this month is her sister (!) Dr. Susan Linn, whose new book, The Case for Make Believe, encourages parents to turn off the television, hide the computer games, and send their kids out to play. In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the links between play, creativity, and health, showing us how and why to preserve space for make-believe in children's lives. Dr. Linn is Associate Director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also co-founder and director of the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Dr. Linn lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband and daughter. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Susan Rich 8/7/2008
Nancy's guest this month is poet Susan Rich. Rich is the winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award as well as the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World. In her new book, Cures Include Travel, Rich's poems alternate between international themes -- the aftermath of civil war in Bosnia, the all but extinct Jewish community of Dublin, the life of a man living for over a decade in a Paris airport -- and subjects closer to home such as Nisqually 6.8, and Morning Meditation at the Alki Beach Cafe. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Geraldine Brooks 7/9/2008
Nancy's guest is Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. Brooks, who won the Pulitzer for her novel March, has based her new novel, People of the Book, on the real-life adventures of a 14th century Hebrew codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah. The manuscript, which surfaced in 1894, is a richly illuminated version of the narrative Jews around the world use at their Passover tables to tell the story of the Exodus. It caused uproar among art historians who had long believed that the Third Commandment had precluded the use of figurative art by medieval Jews. The story moves from Sarajevo in 1940, then back to late-19th-century Vienna, 15th-century Venice, Catalonia during the Spanish Inquisition and finally Seville in 1480. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Molly Gloss 6/11/2008
Nancy Pearl's guest on this edition of Book Lust is award-winning novelist Molly Gloss, whose latest novel, The Hearts of Horses, tells the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for "gentling" wild horses. Set in Oregon in the winter of 1917, the story follows the journey of nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen, a strong-willed young woman who leaves home to find work breaking horses for families whose sons have left to fight in the Great World War. Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland. In 1996 she was the recipient of a prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award. She also authored these award winning books: The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day and Wild Life. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Judy Schachner 5/8/2008
Nancy's guest is Judy Schachner, illustrator and writer of the award-winning Skippyjon Jones children's books. Skippyjon is a rambunctious Siamese kitten with oversized ears and an equally oversized imagination. When he is sent to have a time-out in his room, Skippyjon entertains himself by donning a cape and taking on the persona of El Skippito, a sword-toting, superhero Chihuahua. Skippyjon Jones' adventures have been chronicled by Schachner in five books, the latest is Skippyjon Jones and the Treasure Hunt. Schachner and her family live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Justina Chen Headley 4/3/2008
Nancy’s guest is Justina Chen Headley, a writer of young adult fiction. Chen’s debut novel, “Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies),” won the 2007 Asian Pacific American Award for literature and was a Borders’ Original Voices nominee, BookSense pick, and NYPL Book for the Teen Age. Her new novel, “Girl Overboard,” is a Junior Library Guild Premier Selection. Publishers Weekly writes, “Headley crafts a tale that will stand out in the crowd by offering a good dose of girl power and an intriguing family back-story.” Justina is also the creator of the popular website ReaderGirlz, an interactive website for teen girls that promotes literacy and community involvement. She lives in Seattlewith her husband and children. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Ann Patchett 3/6/2008
Nancy's guest is author Ann Patchett. Ann has authored five novels, including Bel Canto (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize), The Patron Saint of Liars, and Run, as well as her bestselling nonfiction book, Truth & Beauty. She has written for the Atlantic, Harper's, Gourmet, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and the Washington Post. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Bharti Kirchner 2/8/2008
Bharti Kirchner is the prolific author of eight books -- four novels and four cookbooks, and has been publishing since 1992. Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Marathi, Thai and other languages. Her fourth novel Pastries: A Novel of Desserts and Discoveries (St. Martin’s Press) is now out in hardcover. Bharti has won two Seattle Arts Commission literature grants, and an Artist Trust GAP grant. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Nassim Assefi 1/5/2008
Nancy Pearl's guest on this edition of Book Lust is Nassim Assefi, a 2nd generation Iranian-American who is an internist specializing in women's health and global medicine. Her first novel, Aria, examines the struggle of a young cancer specialist and single mother to come to grips with her daughter's death and to reconnect with her estranged Iranian parents and heritage. She is currently writing a second novel set in post-conflict Afghanistan entitled Say I Am You. She lives in Istanbul with her husband Miguel. Most recently, she has been an academic in Seattle, a humanitarian aid worker and underground salsa dance teacher in Kabul, and an aspiring musician in Havana. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Stephenie Meyer 12/8/2007
Nancy Pearl's guest is Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling young adult Twilight series, which chronicles the adventures of star-crossed lovers Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. The first book of the series, Twilight, tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan who moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father, and becomes drawn to Edward, a pale, mysterious classmate who seems determined to push her away. But neither can deny the attraction that pulls them together, even when Edward confides that he and his family are vampires. The Twilight series is a cultural phenomenon with a fanatic fanbase - more than 3.5 million copies of her three books have been sold worldwide. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Arthur and Alex Dorros 11/2/2007
On this episode of Book Lust, Nancy Pearl's guests are Authur and Alex Dorros, a father and son who recently collaborated on a children's book called Numero Uno. Arthur Dorros is a well-known author and illustrator of children's books, while Alex, a high-school student, wrote the basic story of Numero Uno when he was in sixth grade. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Mykaila Ostrom 10/5/2007
Seattle's uber-librarian Nancy Pearl interviews Mykaila Ostrom, an enthusiastic reader who is in the 8th grade at St. Benedict School in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. Ostrom's favorite authors are Meg Rosoff, E.L. Konigsburg and Jonathan Stroud. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Karen Joy Fowler 9/8/2007
Nancy's guest on this edition of Book Lust is Karen Joy Fowler. Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club, which has been adapted into a screenplay for a major motion picture. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Sherman Alexie 8/4/2007
Nancy Pearl's guest on this episode of Book Lust is renowned Northwest author (and one of the most popular writers of his generation) Sherman Alexie. Alexie is well-known for his novels, short stories and screenplays depicting contemporary Native Americans. His many works include Smoke Signals, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and a new novel for young adults to be published in September 2007 called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Nick DiMartino 7/7/2007
Nancy's guest in July is local author and bookseller Nick DiMartino. DiMartino, a self-described intense, unstoppable reader, compiles a monthly list of recommended new books called Nick's Picks for the Novelworld website (novelworld.squarespace.com). |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Elizabeth George 6/8/2007
Nancy's guest in June is bestselling author Elizabeth George. Fans of George's popular Inspector Lynley series were stunned by the brutal slaying of the Scotland Yard detective's wife in "With No One as Witness" (2005). Her latest novel, "What Came Before He Shot Her," unveils the events leading up to that bold, bloody event. George is the bestselling author of thirteen novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and two short-story collections. Most of her novels have been filmed for television by the BBC and broadcast in the United States on PBS's "Mystery" series. She lives in Seattle Washington, and London. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Connie Willis 5/5/2007
Connie Willis is the award winning author of Doomsday Book, Passage, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Bellwether. Willis has been awarded nine Hugo Awards, Nine Locus Poll Awards and six Nebula Awards. Her stories have an epic feel to them and range from laugh out loud funny to deadly serious. She is currently working on All Clear, a time travel novel to the time of the London Blitz. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Tim Sandlin 4/7/2007
Nancy guest is Tim Sandlin, author of Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty -- a hilarious and touching novel that explores how baby boomers are facing their own mortality. Tim lives in Jackson, Wyoming and is also the author of the GroVont trilogy and a collection of columns from the Jackson Hole News called The Pyms: Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Guy Gavriel Kay 3/3/2007
Nancy's guest this month is internationally bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay. Kay's distinguished literary career began when he helped complete Tolkien's posthumous masterpiece, The Silmarillion. His own epic trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, appears on The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List. Kay's latest novel, Ysabel, is a departure from his earlier historical fantasies in that it takes place in the world of today in Provence, France. The story revolves around a photo shoot in the Saint-Saveur Cathedral, an ancient structure of many secrets. Guy Gavriel Kay's works have been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Toronto. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Colson Whitehead 2/17/2007
Nancy's guest this month award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead, whose latest book Apex Hides the Hurt, has just been released in paperback. Fans of his earlier novels, The Intuitionist and John Henry Days, will find the same wicked humor and literary wordplay in his new book. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Nancy Rawles 1/1/2007
Nancy's guest in January is award-winning novelist and playwright Nancy Rawles. Rawles' latest book, My Jim, revisits Mark Twain's classic and racially charged tale, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In My Jim, Rawles uses the first-person story of Sadie, the wife of Huck Finn's enslaved traveling companion, to give us new insight into Jim's life and the world of slavery he left behind. |
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Kate Atkinson 12/4/2006
Nancy Pearl's guest on this episode of Book Lust is British author Kate Atkinson. Atkinson was born in York in 1951 and studied English Literature at Dundee University. She began writing for women's magazines after winning the 1986 Woman's Own Short Story Competition. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995), won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year award, beating Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and Roy Jenkins' biography Gladstone. Her latest books are Case Histories (2004), and One Good Turn (2006). |
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Terry Pratchet
11/6/2006
Nancy's guest in November is one of the world's most popular writers, Terry Pratchett. In addition to his highly successful Discworld series, Pratchett has written numerous books for young adults and children. His book, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won Britain's highest honor for a children's book, the Carnegie Medal. Pratchett is in Seattle to read from his new book, Wintersmith, the third in his Tiffany Aching series. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Julie Paschkis 10/6/2006
Nancy's guest in October is Seattle painter and illustrator Julie Paschkis. Her latest work can be seen in the children's book, "Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary," where her colorful, joyful paintings illustrate poems by Julie Larios. Paschkis has illustrated many children's books. Paschkis sees her paintings as "open-ended stories," and describes the illustrations she does for children's books as "a 32 page painting in service to the story and characters of the book." Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the Northwest, most recently at the Grover/Thurston Gallery in Seattle. |
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Elizabeth Crane
9/22/2006
Nancy's guest in September is Elizabeth Crane, who will talk about her new book, "All This Heavenly Glory," which was described by the Chicago Tribune as "unique, intriguing, and often hilarious." Elizaeth Crane's stories have appeared in publications including The Sycamore Review, Washington Square, Weep Daily, New York Stories, Book, The Florida Review, and Eclipse. She received the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award, granted by the Chicago Public Library Foundation, in October 2003. A New York City native, she now lives in Chicago with her husband and teaches writing at Northwestern's School of Continuing Studies and The University of Chicago. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Deb Caletti 8/4/2006
Nancy's guest in August is award-winning author Deb Caletti, whose third book, Wild Roses, is winning praise from both adult and young adult readers. Deb Caletti lives with her family part-time on acreage in Issaquah and part-time in the city on a houseboat. When she's not writing books or reading them, she is a painter and a lyricist, and speaks widely to audiences on writing and life as an author. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Linda Barnes
7/7/2006
Nancy's guest in July is celebrated mystery author Linda Barnes. Barnes has written fifteen mystery novels, eleven featuring her 6'1" redheaded Boston private eye Carlotta Carlyle, who first appeared in 1985 with the award-winning short story Lucky Penny. Since then, Barnes has written ten Carlotta Carlyle mystery novels. In Heart of the World, Barnes's latest mystery, Carlotta is investigating the disappearance of her adopted little sister Paolina, a case that could change her life forever. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Julia Alvarez 6/2/2006
Nancy's guest in June is Julia Alvarez, whose latest novel, Saving the World, takes us into the worlds of two women, two centuries apart, who are both swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their days. A brilliant novel-within-a-novel, Saving the World pits ambition against altruism, and in the process, tells the radiant stories of two courageous women. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Debra Dean 5/5/2006
Nancy's guest this month is Debra Dean, whose debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningad, is being described as one of the most talked about books of the year. Dean worked as an actor in the New York theater for nearly a decade before opting for the life of a writer and teacher. She lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Taylor Branch 4/7/2006
Nancy's guest in April is Pulitzer Prize-winner and best selling author Taylor Branch. Branch's latest book, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968, concludes his 3-volume history, America in the King Years. Volume 1, Parting the Waters, provided an unsurpassed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s rise to greatness, beginning with the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and ending with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Volume 2, Pillar of Fire, covers the years from 1963-1965, which encompassed the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, when Malcolm X raised a militant new voice for racial separatism, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation by race and mandated equal opportunity for women. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Robert Goldstein 3/3/2006
Nancy's guest this month is Robert Goldstein, author of The Gentleman from Finland: Adventures on the Trans-Siberian Express. Goldstein's travel memoir transports the reader back to a time when the Cold War was still in frost. The author skillfully conveys the tone of the times by telling the story of his bizarre trip through the characters he meets and the odd circumstances that he finds himself in. At times laugh-out loud funny and at other times thought provokingly serious, this book - a third place winner of the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association Library Award for nonfiction - is a guaranteed page-turner. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Jayne Ann Krentz 2/3/2006
Nancy's guest in February is "romantic suspense" author Jayne Ann Krentz. Krentz has written over 122 romance novels, including 27 New York Times bestsellers under various pen names. Her latest book, All Night Long, is another exciting story of passion, murder, small-town secrets, and scandal. Before beginning her writing career, Krentz had a successful career as a corporate and academic librarian, including a position at Duke University's library. In addition to writing, Krentz sits on the Advisory Board for the Writers Program at the University of Washington Extension Program. She lives in Seattle with her husband. |
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Book Lust with E.L. Doctorow 1/6/2006
The 2006 season of Book Lust with Nancy Pearl begins with her wonderful interview with award-winning author E. L. Doctorow. Doctorow's latest book, The March, follows General Sherman's army on its famous March to the Sea, a scorched-earth campaign that plowed from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga., in late 1864, at the end of the Civil War. |
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Book Lust with Vikram Seth 12/2/2005
Nancy's guest in December is Vikram Seth, author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy. Seth's new book, Two Lives, is an extraordinary memoir of the lives of his great aunt Henny, a German Jewess, and great uncle Shanti, an Indian Hindi. Seth has woven together their astonishing stories, and the result is both a history of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors, and an intimate portrait of their friendship, marriage and abiding yet complex love. |
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Book Lust with Linda Bierds 11/4/2005
Nancy's guest in November is award-winning poet Linda Bierds. Bierds, the author of seven volumes of poetry and a MacArthur fellow, will talk about her latest volume of poetry, First Hand. In the new volume, a series of 30 linked poems, Bierds recreates moments of significant scientific exploration and discovery across the centuries. |
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Book Lust with Karen Fisher 10/7/2005
Nancy's guest this month is Karen Fisher, a Northwest author whose debut novel, "A Sudden Country," is getting rave reviews. It's currently the
2nd best selling novel on the Pacific Northwest Booksellers list, and is a People Magazine Critic's Choice and an Editor's Choice of Entertainment Weekly. Fisher has worked in the West as a teacher, wrangler, farmer and carpenter. She now lives with her husband and their three children on Lopez Island in the Puget Sound. |
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Book Lust with Shawn Wong 9/1/2005
Nancy's guest this month is Seattle author Shawn Wong, whose bestselling novel "American Knees" is being made into a movie that will be released next year. Wong is also the author of the award-winning novel "Homebase" and has co-edited and edited several anthologies of Asian-American literature, including the landmark books "Aiiieeeee!" and "The Big Aiiieeeee!" His work has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and numerous other prizes. He is Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Washington. |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Jasper Fforde 8/1/2005
In August's Book Lust, Nancy Pearl visits Jasper Fforde, the author of the bestselling Thursday Next Series that includes: The Eyre Affair, Lost In A Good Book, The Well Of Lost Plots, and Something Rotten. Nancy and Jasper discuss his newest book “The Big Over Easy”, the first book in the his Nursery Crimes series. |
Book Lust with Jess Walter 7/1/2005
Nancy's guest in July is Jess Walter from Spokane Washington whose third book, "Citizen Vince", has been getting rave reviews from everyone from Ken Bruen to Richard Russo. Darkly funny and surprisingly hopeful, "Citizen Vince" is the story of a charming crook chasing the biggest score of his life: a second chance. |
Book Lust with David Laskin 6/3/2005
Nancy Pearl's guest is self-proclaimed weather nut David Laskin, author of "The Children's Blizzard." Laskin's nonfiction book recounts the gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers in Nebraska and the Dakotas in January 1888. |
Book Lust with Mary Doria Russell 5/1/2005
In May's Book Lust, Nancy Pearl visits with Mary Doria Russell, the best selling author of “The Sparrow” and “Children of God”. Russell's new novel, “A Thread of Grace”, is set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II. Through the lives of a handful of fascinating characters, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. |
Book Lust with Andrew Sean Greer 4/1/2005
This month, host Nancy Pearl talks with Andrew Sean Greer, author of the national best seller and Today Show book pick, The Confessions of Max Tivoli. Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, this novel questions the nature of love, time and what it means to be human.
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Book Lust with Stephanie Kallos 3/4/2005
In March's Book Lust, Nancy Pearl talks with Seattle author Stephanie Kallos. Kallos’ debut novel, “Broken for You,” was recently chosen as a Today Show Book Club reading selection and is a recipient of a 2005 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award. |
Book Lust with Patrick Carman 2/4/2005
This month, Nancy Pearl talks with Patrick Carman, author of "The Dark Hills Divide," part one of "The Land of Elyon," a fantasy series for young readers. "The Dark Hills Divide" grew out of stories Caman told his young daughters. It focuses on a young girl who explores what lies beyond her walled kingdom and stumbles onto a plot to destroy the Land of Elyon from within. |
Book Lust with David Domke 1/7/2005
Nancy's guest this month is author David Domke. Domke discusses his recent book "God Willing: Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the 'War on Terror' and the Echoing Press. |
Book Lust with Stephen Greenblatt 12/1/2004
This month Nancy's guest is Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. In his new book, Greenblatt interweaves a portrait of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of Shakespeare's life, showing how this particular life history gave rise to the world's greatest writer. |
Book Lust with Susan Orlean 11/5/2004
This month, Nancy's guest is Susan Orlean, author of "My kind of place, travel stories from a woman who's been everywhere." Orlean, a staff writer at New Yorker magazine, has written four books including "The Orchid Thief" which was the inspiration for the movie "Adaptation". |
Book Lust with Marjane Satrapi 10/1/2004
October's Book Lust with Nancy Pearl features Marjane Satrapi and her memoirs of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, "Persepolis" and "Persepolis 2". |
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