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...
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Best-selling novelist John Irving discusses the subjects (bears, wrestling, gender identity) that have found their way into each one of his 13 books, from the first, Setting Free the Bears, to 2012`s...
View ArticleBook Lust featuring Jim Lynch
Olympia novelist Jim Lynch, who previously wrote The Highest Tide and Border Songs, describes researching and writing, Truth Like the Sun, which takes place both during the 1962 World`s Fair and 40...
View ArticleBook Lust featuring Daniel Silva
Over the course of 12 fast-paced and engrossing novels, readers get to know Gabriel Allon, novelist Daniel Silva`s series character, who is an undercover agent for the Israeli government.
View ArticleBook Lust featuring Paul Auster
Paul Auster, author of New York Trilogy and other fiction and nonfiction, describes his new work Winter Journal as well as his ideas about how individual readers and writers collaborate in producing a...
View ArticleBook Lust featuring G. Willow Wilson
Host Nancy Pearl sits down with author G. Willow Wilson to discuss her memoir 'The Butterfly Mosque,' about her conversion to Islam and life in Egypt, as well as her elastic-realist first novel, 'Alif...
View ArticleBook Lust featuring Tim Egan
National Book Award winner Tim Egan discusses his fascination with the life and times of Edward R. Curtis, the subject of Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, his newest work of nonfiction.
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Book Lust featuring Laurie Frankel
Laurie Frankel discusses how she balances novel writing with family life, how she develops her novels` plots and characters, her creative process, and why it`s important it is for writers to also be...
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Book Lust featuring Douglas Smith
Historian Doug Smith discusses his research methods, the type of history he most enjoys writing (and reading), and how his newest book, Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy, came to...
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Book Lust featuring Sydney Grace Armstrong
Nancy talks to almost 12-year-old Sydney Grace Armstrong about books and reading, including what she looks for in a novel, the titles she loves best, reading aloud, and why she wants to be a writer...
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Book Lust featuring Julia Quinn
Best selling historical romance novelist Julia (Pottinger) Quinn -- a smart, ambitious Harvard graduate -- has created sharp and humorous heroines in over 30 plus books appearing 16 times on the NY...
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Book Lust featuring Jacqueline Winspear
Nancy and novelist Jacqueline Winspear discuss her best-selling series of mysteries featuring former housemaid, now detective, Maisie Dobbs, which all take place in England in the years following World...
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Book Lust featuring Isabel Allende
Best-selling writer Isabel Allende and host Nancy Pearl discuss her newest novel, Maya`s Notebook, set in both Chile and Berkeley; the role of magical realism in life and literature, and her writing...
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Book Lust featuring Nathaniel Philbrick
Nancy and National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick discuss Bunker Hill, his newest work of narrative nonfiction, as well as earlier titles such as The Last Stand, Sea of Glory, and Why Read...
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Book Lust featuring The Business of Publishing
Publishing specialists Jen Worick and Kerry Colburn discuss some of the significant changes in the publishing world, including self-publishing and promotion, as well as nuts and bolts issues like...
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Book Lust featuring Deirdre McNamer
Montana author Deirdre McNamer talks with Nancy Pearl about her recently reissued novel One Sweet Quarrel, which follows the lives of three siblings during the first half of the 20th century. The tale...
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Book Lust featuring Daniel James Brown
Brown describes the unusual background and wide-ranging research done for his 3rd work of non-fiction, the best-selling The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936...
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Billy Collins 11/12/2013
Two time U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins discusses the origins of his love of poetry, his favorite poets, and the place of poetry in contemporary society.
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Joe Janes
Dr. Joseph W. Janes, head of the MLIS (Masters in Library Science) program at the University of Washington's Information School, talks with Nancy about the future of books, reading, and the fate of...
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Jon Cohen 12/18/2013
Novelist and screenwriter Jon Cohen discusses the differences in writing these two distinct types of fiction, as well as experiences in his own life that found their way into his novel The Man in the...
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