This week's KPR Presents features two familiar voices to NPR listeners: special correspondent Susan Stamberg and librarian Nancy Pearl. Join Kaye McIntyre as she visits with Susan Stamberg in advance of Stamberg's March 13th appearance at the University of Kansas Lied Center, co-sponsored by the Lawrence Public Library and Kansas Public Radio. Plus, we'll hear from librarian Nancy Pearl, frequent NPR guest and author of Book Lust, More Book Lust, Book Lust to Go, and Book Crush. Nancy Pearl stopped by the KPR studios while she was in town for a Lawrence Public Library event in November 2011.
Nancy Pearl's author and book suggestions:
Chad Harbach: The Art of Fielding
David James Duncan: The Brothers K
Willa Cather: My Antonia
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Edmund DeWaal: The Hare with the Amber Eyes
Terry Pratchett: Night Watch, The Wyrd Sisters
Bella Pollen: The Summer of the Bear
Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus
Tatjana Soli: The Lotus Eaters
Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove
Robert Caro: The Passage of Power (May 2012)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Candace Millard
Guy Gavriel Kay
Paul Auster
E. Nesbit
Edward Eager
Betty Cavanna
Harper Lee