Nancy Pearl is everyone’s favorite librarian and certainly mine (after Susan English, my hometown librarian, of course).
Nancy has a television show called Book Lust, after her book of the same name, on which she talks to authors about their books, everybody else’s books and life in general.
I had the incomparable privilege of being her guest in February, and the video has just now been posted online.
Go here to watch it.
It was an honor to be in the room with the inspiration for the Librarian Action Figure. Thanks, Nancy!
Great interview!
Thanks.
Hey speaking of honor, good going on having Kate take Roberts Rules and bring order to the NNA. May I congratulate her on the decision to redo the logo….the beginning of every great project.
Very nice adventure with Kate. Thank you. How did you become such a Roethke fan? Your buddy Kathleen Alcala teaches me (and others) at Whidbey Writers where one of his students, David Wagoner, also teacher. David wrote a play about Roethke. Fascinating. Tough. Whatta guy.
Thanks again…
Hi Dana,
thanks for letting us peek into your creative process. It was fun to watch. And, never before have I seen a librarian action figure! Way cool.
Dana, you are so right about the Star Trek Cantina. Didn’t you think the fight scene atop the drill rig could have as easily been done with light sabers? Also, Pike was like the Obi Wan for fatherless Kirk. What a hoot!
Next time I see it I want to count how many times Kirk hangs from something by his fingertips.
Thanks for the syllabus, I’ve cut and pasted it into a word doc for leisurely perusal.
Dana,
The horror texts I’ve used in my class (which is for non-English majors who fear and loathe Literature) include (as a survey) Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Turn of the Screw, Interview with the Vampire, Carrie, and either Jurassic Park (which is a modern Frankenstein – the book is Crichton’s masterpiece) or Relic.
Then I started doing American horror and used stories by Poe, Hawthorne, and Lovecraft,plus Rice, King, and Still LIfe with Crows by Preston & Child (set nearby – the students loved that).
Now I do the syntax of the vampire, with a book that has Cristabel and other background, and includes Carmilla and Dracula, and then we read Interview, Vampire Hunter D (post-apocalytic cowboy vampire hunter) and Dead Until Dark.
They will read thousands of pages without noticing, and some of them every term discover that they do actually like to read. One student read a book through for the first time in this class.
Hope this is useful.
Yes, the film is a strange overlay of Star Wars over Star Trek – but think of the hero names – Kirk, Spock, Luke. I suppose the latter was influenced by the former inescapably. The plot of Star Trek was way clever, though, I thought.
Barbara
HiDana,
Just wanted to let you know that the narration for “Whisper to the Blood” won the very prestigious “earphones award” from Audiofile Magazine. Many lovely comments made about both of us- Kudos for a good read that translates to audio. You can find the review at Audiofile on line.
Hope all is well! What’s next!
Best, Shannon
Dana,
Went to your website on my lunch hr. since I hadn’t been there for awhile and followed the link to your interview with Nancy Pearl.
You act and sound just as I’ve pictured you in my mind. You are probably an interviewer’s dream! Also…”Library Lady”…who knew? Loved her too.
I was heavily into science fiction for awhile but haven’t read much of it in my middle aged life(although I am attracted to paranormal and fantasy once and awhile). The one book that still stands out for me is Sheri S. Tepper’s “The Gate to Women’s Country”(1988). Would love to know if you read her books. Your interview sparked that memory my ADD self went on a tangent to look up her website…and…oh, geez, my lunch break has been over for awhile now. Later!
I just posted a link to the review on my Facebook page, Shannon. I am so pleased for you, and me, too!
Jackie, I have probably hand sold more copies of The Gate to Women’s Country than I have of all my own books put together. My friend Janice teaches it in her English classes now, and I’ve made book clubs I don’t even belong to read it. One of the greats, and permanently enshrined on my bookshelf.
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