Topic: What Is The True Nature Of A Gift? Arts Interview: Laurie R King

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HOUR 1: Talk With Listeners Calling In Live

Ruth and Laurie R King

 

What is the true nature of a gift? Historically, many tribal groups circulate a large portion of their material wealth as gifts. A gift is given in the knowledge that it will keep being given and never be stagnant. Do we now think of gifts predominantly as material items? Has gift-giving become a barter exchange where we try to give gifts of equal value to what we will receive? Has gift-giving become largely an obligation or is there still real joy in it? What about gifts that aren’t things? Our time, caring, thoughtfulness, creativity? The sunset, the ocean, the mountains? A child’s uninhibited laughter, the love of someone dear to us, the caring of a stranger? Do we think of these as gifts? Is a true gift something that is offered freely with no expectation of return? Join the conversation!

 

HOUR 2: (Begins at 0:51 mins) Interview with internationally best-selling author Laurie R King

 

I interview Laurie R King, award-winning, internationally best-selling author of over 25 books including the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, Kate Martinelli books and novels including her latest The Bones Of Paris. Since her first book in 1993, A Grave Talent, which won the MWA Edgar Award for best first novel, and the CWA Creasey Award, she has averaged a book a year, gathering multiple nominations for and winning many prestigious writing awards including The Beekeeper’s Apprentice being chosen as one of the top 100 Favourite Mysteries of the 20th. A third generation Northern Californian who has lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay area, Laurie R King has also spent a considerable amount of time in Britain. Her background is as mixed as any writer’s, from degrees in theology and managing a coffee store to raising children, vegetables, and the occasional building.

The Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series allows King to explore all sorts of ideas and forge an unlikely relationship between two remarkably similar individuals who happen to be separated by age, sex, and background.

The five Kate Martinelli books feature a modern homicide detective based in San Francisco. The latest book The Art Of Detection bringing about a meeting of the Mary Russell and Kate Martinelli worlds.

In what can only be described as a remarkable career, Laurie has also written non-fiction, stand-alone novels and the Stuyvesant/Grey books, the latest of which is The Bones Of Paris. We talk about her life and work. For more info visit www.laurierking.com