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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Drego Little 1/30/2014
Drego Little, a literature teacher at Rainier Scholars (an educational program serving students of color over an 11-year journey from 6th grade to college) talks about getting kids excited about books...
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Laurie Halse Anderson 3/6/2014
Critically acclaimed and very popular with both teen and adult audiences, Laurie Halse Anderson talks with Nancy about writing novels that explore difficult and delicate issues that can accompany...
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Book Lust featuring Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle, a series of 9 one-act plays; he talks here about his newest play, All the Way, the story of Lyndon Johnson`s first year as...
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Carol Cassella 5/8/2014
Physician, best-selling writer (her third novel, Gemini, was published in March 2014), wife, and mother to four teenagers, Carol Cassella discusses how she balances these different aspects as of her life.
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring David Laskin 6/5/2014
David Laskin, well-reviewed nonfiction writer and frequent contributor to the N.Y. Times, talks to Nancy about his newest, most personal work yet, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the...
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Haroon Ullah 7/10/2014
Nancy and Haroon discuss how he came to write The Bargain from the Bazaar and how the family described in the book symbolizes the complexities of modern day Pakistan. He also talks about growing up...
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Sarah Bird 8/7/2014
Prolific novelist Sarah Bird talks with Nancy about how her childhood as a military 'brat' has provided the kernel of many of her books, especially The Yakota Officers Club and her newest, Above the...
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Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Brad Craft 9/4/2014
Brad Craft, used book buyer at Seattle`s University Book Store, discusses how to judge if a book is valuable, whether collectors are necessarily readers, and the books on his personal bookshelves.
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Book Lust featuring Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, award-winning author of The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild and other books, describes how her studies of philosophy have informed her interest in the...
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Book Lust featuring Peter Mountford
Seattle author Peter Mountford revisits his early career as a policy analyst intern with a think tank, which ultimately led to his experience living in South America and a career writing finance-driven...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring A. O. Scott
A. O. Scott, film critic for The New York Times and author of Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, andTruth talks with Nancy about what exactly criticism is, its...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Mayor Ed Murray
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray joins host Nancy Pearl for a special edition of Book Lust. An avid reader, Murray struggled with reading as a young child. Thanks to his mother's love of books and dedicated...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Guy Gavriel Kay
Award-winning writer Guy Gavriel Kay talks about his newest novel, Children of Earth and Sky, the importance of character and story in his books, world-building, and the enduring popularity of fantasy...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Adam Haslett
Nancy Pearl talks with award-winning author Adam Haslett about his new novel Imagine Me Gone, a fiercely intimate story of the toll of mental illness and a family facing the ultimate question: how far...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Maria Semple
Seattle novelist Maria Semple, author of the 2012 hit comic novel Where'd You Go Bernadette, joins host Nancy Pearl to talk about her new novel Today Will Be Different, which follows a crazy day in the...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Douglas Smith
Douglas Smith discusses his new book Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs and shares how his research dug deep into the story behind one of Russia's most fabled and notorious figures.
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Bonnie Rochman
Award-winning journalist Bonnie Rochman sits down with Nancy Pearl to discuss her book The Gene Machine - How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids - and the Kids We Have.
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen
Vietnamese American novelist and professor Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with host Nancy Pearl about his influences and personal history and the process of writing three celebrated books published in less...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Rosemarie and Vince Keenan, aka Renee...
Rosemarie and Vince Keenan, husband-and-wife Seattleites who write as Renee Patrick, discuss their latest mystery novel "Dangerous to Know," which follows their earlier "Design for Dying," with host...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Jamie Harrison
Nancy Pearl sits down with author Jamie Harrison, who wrote the acclaimed Blue Deer series of mystery novels set in a fictionalized Livingston, Mont., to discuss her new novel "The Widow Nash."...
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