Andrea Barrett
Nancy Pearl
James Wood
Andrea Barrett is the author of five novels, most recently The
Voyage of the Narwhal, and two collections of short fiction, Ship
Fever, which received the National Book Award, and Servants of
the Map, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A MacArthur Fellow,
she’s also been a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the
New York Public Library, and has received Guggenheim and NEA
fellowships. She lives in western Massachusetts and teaches at Williams
College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson.
Nancy Pearl is the former director of the Washington Center for the
Book at the Seattle Public Library. She now writes, reviews books for
both local and national publications, and speaks to library and
community groups across the country. She reviews books regularly on
NPR's Morning Edition and KUOW, the Seattle affiliate of National
Public Radio. She is the author of Book Lust: Recommended Reading
for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (Sasquatch Books, 2003); More
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
(Sasquatch Books, 5/05); Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream
Fiction, 1978 - 1998 (Libraries Unlimited, 1999); and Now Read
This II: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1990-2001 (Libraries
Unlimited, 2002). In 1998, Library Journal named her Fiction Reviewer
of the Year. She is the model for the Librarian Action Figure.
James Wood is a senior editor at The New Republic and a
visiting lecturer in English and American Literature at Harvard
University. He has served as the chief literary critic for the The
Guardian and has published two collections of critical essays, The
Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and The
Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel, and a novel, The
Book Against God. His essays and reviews have appeared in a number
of other publications including The New Yorker and The
London Review of Books.
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