![]() ![]() In the early 1990s, she edited an indie rock fanzine. She has worked in a variety of trades, including masonry and technical writing. Too late for that, but you could still fulfill my other fantasy of a Jonathan Franzen/ Bill McKibben debate moderated by Petina Gappah.īONUS QUESTION: In honor of the 5th anniversary of Children’s Day, we’re asking everyone, What’s your favorite children’s book? I’d like to see John Clute interview Doris Lessing. If you had the power to create your own fantasy BKBF panel – any writer or artist, dead or alive – who would you love to see discussing books? ![]() We went to the public library once a week and I checked out ten books every time. Pretty soon I had a 100-watt bulb over my bed and permission to read all night. The stories were illustrated and I think they involved bunnies. Whenever I learned new diphthongs, she wrote new stories. My mother taught me to read by writing stories in autograph books using just a few letters, à l’oulipo. ![]() The autobiography of Wolf Biermann, an East German dissident singer-songwriter. ![]() What’s the last book that had you reading past your bedtime? It’s an old linen-bound, rained-on copy I found on a park bench, too beat up to go on a shelf, which is why it’s been on the windowsill in my bathroom for five years. What book do you return to most often, whether passages or whole? It’s a toss-up between the breakfast table and the train. The BKBF Interview with Nell Zink, author of Doxology. ![]()
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