Book Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Charles Finch
Charles Finch, a well-known and award-winning literary critic, is also the author of a series of mystery novels set in Victorian England featuring the gentleman detective Charles Lenox. But his new...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Rosalyn Story
Writer and concert violinist Rosalyn Story's new book, "Sing Her Name," interweaves the lives of two Black women singers living more than a century apart. In the book, a present-day young singer facing...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Nina de Gramont
Author Nina de Gramont joins Nancy Pearl for an episode of Book Lust to talk about "The Christie Affair." She says that before writing this latest work, she hadn’t read a single Agatha Christie...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Gish Jen
Gish Jen joins Nancy Pearl to discuss recent reads, writing short stories, and the origins of her first name (she wasn't born with it). "Thank you, Mr. Nixon," Jen's ninth book, is a novel-in-stories...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl Featuring Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka latest novel, "The Swimmers," opens with a group of obsessed swimmers whose daily ritual is interrupted when a mysterious crack forming at the bottom of their local pool forces its...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Jess Walter
Jess Walter's new short story collection, "The Angel of Rome," explores the little moments in life that spark big change, for better or worse. The bestselling author of "Beautiful Ruins," "The Cold...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Susan Linn
Nancy Pearl talks with Susan Linn (Nancy’s sister!) about the context and impact of technology on today’s children, and her book "Who’s Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: “Library Girl”
Karen Henry Clark and Sheryl Murray join Nancy talk about their collaboration on "Library Girl – How Nancy Pearl Became America's Most Celebrated Librarian," a picture book about a little girl who...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: “Library Girl”
Karen Henry Clark and Sheryl Murray join Nancy talk about their collaboration on "Library Girl – How Nancy Pearl Became America's Most Celebrated Librarian," a picture book about a little girl who...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring David Maraniss
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss’s compelling new book, “Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe,” dives into the life of the Native American sports legend who excelled at every...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Elizabeth McCracken
“Book Lust” host Nancy Pearl speaks with author and former librarian Elizabeth McCracken about her latest work “The Hero of This Book.” The book is inspired by McCracken’s own relationship with her...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Dan Berger
Dan Berger's nonfiction book, "Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey," closely follows a formerly married (still friends) couple through decades on the...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggott joins Book Lust to talk about her wonderfully wacky new collection of short stories, "I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You," a little bit sci-fi, a little bit horror, and a lot of...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher’s “The English Experience” is the third novel in what was never supposed to be a trilogy. The book follows a professor who reluctantly leads an eclectic group of students to a Winter...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Cristina García
Author and playwright Cristina García joins Book Lust's Nancy Pearl to discuss her new novel, "Vanishing Maps," the long-awaited sequel to her 1992 debut, "Dreaming in Cuban." The two discuss García's...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Jennifer Habel, Chris Bachelder
The novel "Dayswork," by the married duo Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder, follows a woman navigating the pandemic while using the life of "Moby-Dick" author Herman Melville to examine her own. The...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Kevin O'Brien
A "Rosie the Riveter"-hunting serial killer roams World War II Seattle in author Kevin O'Brien's first historical fiction thriller, "The Enemy at Home." He and Nancy Pearl discussed the very real...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Daniel Handler
Author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket of "A Series of Unfortunate Events") discusses his new book, "And Then? And Then? What Else?" He tells host Nancy Pearl that it began as a book about the poems...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Kel McDonald
The history books may lead us to believe it's the grand successes that shape our world, but what about the failures? The epic disasters, the inventions ahead of their time, and the plain bad ideas –...
View ArticleBook Lust with Nancy Pearl: Marie-Helene Bertino
Marie-Helene Bertino's "Beautyland" is based on the author's short story about "an unnamed alien faxing notes on human beings to who she believes are her superiors." Bertino based the story's structure...
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