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Read, Share, Give, Enjoy -- Books for the Holidays: A Chat with Nancy Pearl

Aired on Friday, December 2nd.

On this installment of ST, we speak with Nancy Pearl, our longtime book reviewer. She's a Seattle-based bestselling author and retired librarian, and she used to work as a bookseller (decades ago) here in Tulsa. A tireless book advocate and literary critic -- and perhaps the only librarian ever to be fashioned and sold as an action figure -- Nancy can also be heard occasionally recommending books on NPR's Morning Edition. She talked with us about the following titles, all of which she thinks would make great gifts this holiday season:

Michael Chabon. "Moonglow"
Chris Cleave. "Everyone Brave Is Forgiven"
David France. "How to Survive a Plague"
Robert Glancy. "Please Do Not Disturb"
Robert Gottlieb. "Avid Reader"
Becky Masterman. "Fear the Darkness"
Ian McEwan. "Nutshell"
Bonny Becker. "Christmas Crocodile"

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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