# Nancy Pearl
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nancy pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. Her prolific reading and her knowledge of books and literature first made her locally famous in Seattle, Washington, where she regularly appears on public radio recommending books. She achieved broader fame with Book Lust, her 2003 guide to good reading.
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: Brad Bigelow
Nancy Pearl talks with Brad Bigelow about his new biography, "Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts," which revisits the life of a once-promising American writer, editor, and overlooked literary figure. Bigelow traces Faulkner’s rise as a writer and the personal struggles that reshaped her path. Th…
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: Priya Parmar
Host Nancy Pearl sits down with author Priya Parmar to discuss her new book, "The Original." Together, they explore the life and career of Katharine Hepburn, Priya’s extensive research, and Nancy’s appreciation for the novel’s attention to detail.
Hello Bestea Book Club: Tea Time | What We Read, DNF’d & Our TBR | Dark Romance, Thrillers | Ep. 121
In this episode of the Hello Bestea Podcast, we’re spilling all the bookish tea — from the books we couldn’t put down to the ones we had to DNF (and why). If you love honest book reviews, dark romance, thrillers, and aesthetic reads, this one’s for you.
We dive into everything we’ve been reading l…
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: Susan Wiggs
Nancy Pearl talks with bestselling author Susan Wiggs about her novel "Wayward Girls," the story of six teenage girls sent to a brutal Catholic-run reform school in 1968 and their decades-long journey toward justice. Wiggs shares how a return to her childhood home sparked the idea for the novel and…
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: Zayd Ayers Dohrn
Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground while his parents, Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, were fugitives from the FBI. In his memoir, "Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground," he investigates the forces that transformed hi…
It Came From The Thrift Store...Fear Street Super Chiller: Goodnight Kiss
Velcome back, gentle souls! Ve promise ve von't suck your blood! That's right, we're talking vampires this week as we break down Goodnight Kiss, by R.L. Stine. It's a vampires-at-the-beach story that pairs well with Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys. And we get a little bit into theories of why some …
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: Ilan Stavans
What does America’s relationship with God reveal about the nation itself? Author and scholar Ilan Stavans joins Book Lust host Nancy Pearl to discuss his book, "A Nation Wrestles with God: American Prophets, Philosophers, and Firebrands," an ambitious anthology exploring how generations of American…
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