Nancy Pearl Down Under. Again.
Interesting report in SMH about Seattle’s Nancy coming back for the Sydney Writers’ Festival, making it her second appearance in two years. When asked which book she would recommend for an “All Sydney reads …” exercise, she recommended Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man, a novel about the American West. You’d think after already having travelled here once, to the other side of the planet, she’d realise that Australia isn’t actually part of the USA. Or maybe she thought that the Ozzie accent was due to being VERY deep south?
But that’s not actually fair - I’m just being sniffy because no one was interested in producing a Warrior Librarian action figure. Pearl actually showed a quite reasonable knowledge of Australian popular literature … considering she’s from the Very Far North Queensland village of Seattle.
