From the MN Star Tribune: Nancy Pearl is in Minnesota this week as part of the Club Book series, talking about her latest book, “Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers” (Sasquatch Books, $16.95). Here visit will take her to the Southdale Library in Edina, the St. Paul Library and to a local school on behalf of the Carver County Library.
Between her website (nancypearl.com), Facebook (“it’s a real time-sucker-upper”), tweets, NPR reviews and speaking engagements, she’s a literary lantern who lights our way through the dark canyons created by the overwhelmingly prolific publishing industry. She talked from her home in Seattle about the complex process of choosing a book, and the beauty of intuition.
Interview follows here.
On the complex process of
On the complex process of choosing a book:
“But the best guides, I believe, are the reader’s whims—trust in pleasure and faith in haphazardness—which sometimes lead us into a makeshift state of grace, allowing us to spin gold out of flax.” A Reader on Reading, Alberto Manguel
“it’s about reading and thinking and exploring ideas and following the paths of your own particular mind”
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