Book Club: Get Those Questions Ready
By now, I think all you Radio Galaxy Book Club people who intend to read Jim Shepard’s Like You’d Understand, Anyway along with us have probably gotten the book. I know some of you have read it. So it’s time to start getting questions together, because I have set a date to interview Shepard.
It’s going to happen October 1. And I want your help in figuring out what I’m going to talk with him about.
Then I’ll get you the results, in some form—audio, text, or a combination of the two.
Sound good? Get reading, and drop me your questions in the comments or by e-mail here.
In the meantime, check out the video above, in which Shepard reads from the book, starting with the beginning of the story “Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay.” It’s a brilliant example of his ability to enter a real historic moment and use it as a jumping-off place for creating characters.
If you want to learn more about the extraordinary events of July 9, 1958, in Lituya Bay, you could start here.
-- Filed by Sarah Goodyear
September 18th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Thanks, Sarah. It’s taken me three lunch hours to watch this, but it was fun.
I’m thinking I need to do some rereading to come up with questions, as these stories are pretty intense. My favorite has to be the “short” one he read (I’m a Carver fan, too) but they are all fascinating in their own way.
By the way, are we discussing this yet?