Speaking For Books
Lisa Lucas
Former Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken, Former Executive Director of the National Book Foundation
As the first woman and the first Black person to serve as Executive Director of the National Book Foundation (presenter of the National Book Awards) and later as Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken, Lisa Lucas has had a dramatic impact on the nation’s literary landscape.
INTERVIEWED ON: June 4th, 2024
Books discussed:
The Xanth Series: Apoca Lips
No one’s safe when a pundemic spreads through the land of Xanth in this madcap adventure from the New York Times–bestselling author.
The Nursery
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A "brilliant...essential and surprisingly thrilling book about motherhood" (The New York Times) and the early postpartum days, following a woman struggling with maternal fear and its looming madness and showing how difficult and fragile those days can be—and how vital love is to pull anyone out from the dark.
Chain Gang All Stars
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black.
MAUS
The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read”.
Charlie Hustle
A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century.
