Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring James Benn
James R. Benn sits down with Nancy Pearl to discuss his Billy Boyle World War II Mystery Series (currently comprised of 14 books) and how he first got the idea for the stories. He talks about the...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Tara Conklin
Tara Conklin, bestselling author of "The House Girl," sits down with Nancy Pearl at the Women's University Club to talk about reading, writing, and being a novelist. Conklin's 2019 book, "The Last...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Paul Yoon
Author Paul Yoon speaks with Nancy Pearl about where his stories come from, his writing process, and what influences his poetic writing style. Yoon's new book, "Run Me To Earth," follows three orphans...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Emily Nemens
Spring training may have been suspended, but America's love of baseball has not. Author and editor Emily Nemens joins Nancy Pearl to talk about short stories, writing, and...baseball! Nemens' debut...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Nancy Pearl!
In this special episode of Book Lust, Folio librarian Lillian Dabney interviews Book Lust host Nancy Pearl and co-author Jeff Schwager about the new book "The Writer's Library."Â The new book is an...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Simon Stephenson
Nancy Pearl interviews Simon Stephenson about his new novel "Set My Heart to Five." The book stars Jared, a robot who works as a dentist in Michigan but discovers he has emotions (even though he's not...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Kathleen Flenniken
Book Lust host Nancy Pearl chats with poet Kathleen Flenniken. In the interview, the former Washington State Poet Laureate opens up about her experience traveling to every county in the state to share...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Natalie Zina Walschots
Natalie Zina Walschots connects the dots between video games, poetry, and her new novel "Hench" with host Nancy Pearl. The book follows the plight of Anna, a supervillain's henchperson who's just...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Marina Endicott
Marina Endicott, author of 'The Voyage of the Morning Light,' shares the heartbreaking injustice that triggered the novel's plot and why she felt compelled to tell the story from a perspective of a...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Jamie Harrison
Jamie Harrison, author of "The Center of Everything," says each novel is some unexpected blend of autobiography and fiction, and this one is no different. She chats with host Nancy Pearl about her...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Steve Olson
Science writer Steve Olson joins Nancy Pearl to talk about his book "The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age," the story of the Manhattan Project, WWII, and the Cold War from...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring David Laskin
After several successful works of narrative nonfiction, author David Laskin dove right into writing fiction, and the coming of age 1970s novel "What Sammy Knew" is the result. He and Nancy Pearl...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Sonora Jha
Sonora Jha joins Nancy Pearl to discuss her book "How to Raise a Feminist Son." They talk about how the book is part memoir, part how-to workbook; how growing up in India influenced her identity as a...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Blaine Harden
Author and journalist Blaine Harden joins Nancy Pearl to discuss his book "A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West." The book dismantles a bogus legend that turned...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Daniel James Brown
Nancy Pearl talks with Daniel James Brown, author of the wildly successful "The Boys in the Boat." His new book, "Facing the Mountain - A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II,"...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Stephen Mack Jones
Author Stephen Mack Jones joins Nancy Pearl to discuss his "August Snow" mysteries. Steve reveals the inspiration behind the title hero, August Snow, an ex-police detective who solves crimes for the...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Naomi Hirahara
Naomi Hirahara joins Nancy Pearl to discuss "Clark and Division," her new historical mystery that takes place in the 1940s when a Japanese American family is transitioning to city life after mass...
View ArticleBook Lust presents "An Evening with Nancy Pearl"
Folio librarian Lillian Dabney talks with Nancy about her energetic commitment to spreading the joy of books. They celebrate Nancy's long career of important work keeping literature at the center of...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Meg Waite Clayton
Meg Waite Clayton took a leap, leaving a busy career in law to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a writer. She's written eight novels since 2002. Her recent books could be categorized as...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Candace Robb
Candace Robb's immersive historical novels take place in medieval England. In her newest novel, "The Riverwoman's Dragon," the 13th in the Owen Archer series, Archer arrives in a York filled with...
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