The Writer's Library: An Interview With Nancy Pearl

Bestselling author, librarian, literary critic, Book Lust host and devoted reader, Nancy Pearl will be discussing her new book The Writer's Library, an intimate, moving and insightful collection of interviews with our great literary figures. She will be in conversation with Folio's very own librarian Lillian Dabney.

With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager that celebrates the power of literature and reading to connect us all.

Before Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Jonathan Lethem became revered authors, they were readers. In this ebullient book, America’s favorite librarian Nancy Pearl and noted-playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's…