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.
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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.'
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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,...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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.
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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...
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