Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
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Podcast Description
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 part of the SEATTLE CHANNEL'S Art Zone, an innovative, first-in-the-nation TV project that creates programming celebrating local arts and culture and encourages people to go out and take part in the region's rich cultural life in person.
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Book Lust featuring Matt Ruff | Host Nancy Pearl and Seattle author Matt Ruff discuss his newest novel The Mirage (an alternative history set in the years following 2001), how he blends story and ideas into his fiction, and the music he listens to as he writes his novels. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Lorraine McConaghy | Lorraine McConaghy, the public historian at Seattle`s Museum of History & Industry talks about her newest book, New Land, North of the Columbia: Historic Documents That Tell the Story of Washington State from Territory to Today. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Richard Mason | Born in South Africa, Richard Mason and his family moved to London when he was 10. He talks to Nancy Pearl about his four novels, his fascination with and innovative use of technology, and why he writes his novels in longhand. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Stewart O`Nan | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Stewart O`Nan, author of, among other novels, Last Night at the Lobster; Emily, Alone; and The Odds, discusses his writing process and how he creates his characters. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Tamora Pierce | Tamora Pierce, author of many fantasy novels for tweens and teens, talks about the future of speculative fiction, her future writing plans, and how important strong female heroines are to her plots. | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Chris Van Allsburg | Van Allsburg talks about the making of all of his books for children, including Jumanji and The Polar Express, as well as how he encountered the drawings of the mysterious author and illustrator Harris Burdick. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Jeffrey Eugenides | Almost a decade after his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex was published, Jeffrey Eugenides returns with a terrific coming-of-age novel that takes place mainly in Providence, RI, in the 1980s. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Edmund de Waal | Nancy sits down with Edmund de Waal, a British ceramic artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010). Edmund de Waal`s The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family`s Century of Art and Loss describes, in transfixing yet understated prose, the fate of his family and their collection of netsuke from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th centuries. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Tatjana Soli | Tatjana Soli discusses her research and writing techniques as she was working on The Lotus Eaters, her first novel, which is set during the Vietnam War. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Deborah Harkness | Deborah Harkness, professor of history at USC, discusses how her studies in European history from 1400-1700, influenced the subject of her first novel, A Discovery of Witches. | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with China Mieville | China Mieville has written many science fiction novels, including his newest, Embassytown. He discusses his feelings about fiction genres, how he develops and writes his books, and some of his favorite books from his childhood. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Bob Dugoni | Bob discusses his career, which began with his nonfiction book The Silent Canary and continued with his successful series featuring attorney David Sloane, including the challenges of writing a series, his life as a reader, and his goals as a writer. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Wesley Stace | Wesley Stace talks about his twin careers: he`s both a singer/songwriter and a novelist, whose newest novel combines these two aspects: it`s the story of murder and mayhem among musicians in 1920s Britain. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Aminatta Forna | Aminatta Forna shares her experiences writing The Memory of Love, a novel set in the aftermath of the Civil War in the 1990s in her native Sierra Leone. | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Brenda Peterson | Brenda Peterson, whose newest book is I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth, discusses how her childhood upbringing has influenced her novels and memoirs. | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Jonathan Evison | Jonathan Evison talks about writing his Olympic Peninsula-based novel, West of Here, an epic tale of discovery and the relationship between man and nature, ranging from the late 19th century to the present. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Anu Garg | Nancy interviews linguaphile supreme, Anu Garg, founder of A Word a Day, which the New York Times describes as 'The most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace.' | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Carl Hiaasen | Despite (or perhaps because of) his deep concern about Florida`s ecology, Carl Hiaasen writes some of the funniest novels you`ll ever read. | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Charles Johnson | National Book Award winner - and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington - Charles Johnson talks about the difference between writing novels and short stories, whether or not creative writing can be taught, and the nature of reading. | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Elinor Lipman | Among other topics, charming and prolific novelist Elinor Lipman talks with Nancy about her feelings for the characters she invents, the definition of 'light' fiction, and her writing process. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl Web Extra: Rebecca Stead | Enjoy even more questions with Rebecca Stead in this extended web only interview. | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Rebecca Stead | Rebecca Stead discusses what inspired her novel When You Reach Me, her own reading tastes, and what it was like to hear that she won the Newbery Award for this book. | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Justin Cronin | Justin Cronin tells Nancy how the idea for his newest novel, The Passage, evolved, along with other tips on the art and craft of writing. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Chang-rae Lee | Chang-rae Lee talks with Nancy about his writing life, his newest novel, The Surrendered, as well as how he could write an emotionally wrenching novel without losing faith in humanity`s capacity for goodness. | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Laurie R. King | Laurie R. King describes her inspiration and writing process in producing the award-winning Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series of mysteries. | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Kirby Larson | Host Nancy Peal interviews multiple-award winning author Kirby Larson about the art and craft of writing for children, focusing on her picture book 'The Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival.' | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Mary Guterson | Mary Guterson`s trademark humor and smarts are on display here as she discusses her new novel, Gone to the Dogs. | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Mike Lawson | Longtime Seattle resident Mike Lawson discusses his series of 'inside the Beltway' thrillers, all featuring Joe DeMarco, who`s a fixer for the very powerful Speaker of the House of Representatives. | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust Web Extra: Tracy Kidder | A half-hour segment simply wasn`t enough to contain all the interesting questions Nancy had for author Tracy Kidder. Please enjoy this extended interview. | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Tracy Kidder | Nancy`s guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer Tracy Kidder. He discusses his new book, Strength in What Remains, and the remarkable young man from Burundi whose life it chronicles. | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust Web Extra: Paul Zelinsky | 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. | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Paul Zelinsky | 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.' | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust with Sarah Dunant | 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. | 12/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust Web Extra: Sarah Dunant | 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. | 12/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Paul Collins | 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. | 11/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Craig Johnson | 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. | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust Speed Questions: Craig Johnson | 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. | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Michael Perry | 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. | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Garth Stein | 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." | 8/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Susan Wiggs | Nancy Pearl's guest this month 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. | 6/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Azar Nafisi | 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. | 6/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Dana Stabenow | Nancy's guest this month 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. | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring M. T. Anderson | 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. | 3/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Mark Siegel | 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." | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Justina Chen Headley | 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. | 4/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Ann Patchett | 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. | 3/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Bharti Kirchner | 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. | 2/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Nassim Assefi | 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. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, UW Medical School, and Harvard's Brigham and Women's residency program. | 1/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Stephenie Meyer | Nancy Pearl's guest on this edition of Book Lust is Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling young adult Twilight series (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse), 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. Their unorthodox romance puts her in physical danger when Edward's nemesis comes to town and sets his sights on Bella. 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, and the series has been translated into 20 languages. Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in English. She lives with her husband and three young sons in Phoenix. | 12/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Arthur and Alex Dorros | 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. | 11/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Mykaila Ostrom | 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. | 10/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Karen Joy Fowler | 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. | 9/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Sherman Alexie | 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 Long 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. | 8/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Nick DiMartino | 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). | 7/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Elizabeth George | 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. | 6/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Connie Willis | 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. | 5/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Tim Sandlin | Nancy's 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. | 4/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Guy Gavriel Kay | 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. | 3/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Colson Whitehead | 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. | 2/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Nancy Rawles | 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. | 1/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book Lust featuring Kate Atkinson | Nancy'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). | 12/4/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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