Kris Hillen, Operations Coordinator
NL: Can you give us a short bio?
KH: Old white lady with two rotten children, two rotten-er cats, and a pretty swell job.
NL: What are you currently reading? Do you like it?
KH: Recently finished Riding Fury Home and When We Were Sisters, reading Roses, In A Lion’s Mouth
NL: If you could have any author speak at Nyack Library, who would it be and why?
KH: Living, Roxane Gay…ridiculously smart/funny; Dead, James Baldwin or Leslie Feinberg…icons
NL: Which character in a book do you most identify with?
KH: Hasn’t been written yet
NL: What books are on your night stand?
KH: Well, there’s a couple on my nightstand, but there’s about 40 on the floor next to my nightstand. I’ll just give three. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson , For the Hard Ones by Tatiana de la Tierra, and Snowflakes in Photographs by W. A. Bentley… he was the first guy to figure out how to take photographs of actual snowflakes. Fascinating.
NL: Are there any books that you feel are overrated?
KH: Books can often reflect a time and place that can’t be understood once that time has passed. But even at the moment, I never understood Bridges of Madison County.
NL: Do you have a literary “guilty pleasure”?
KH: Sure…Hoarding books that I will never have the time to read.
NL: Would you ever organize your books by color? Yea or Nay?
KH: What is this word “or-gan-ize”?
NL: You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?
KH: See above. Roxane Gay, James Baldwin, Leslie Feinberg…I’d probably faint or hide in a closet (pun intended)
NL: What do you plan to read next?
KH: Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly… a couple of books I’ve mentioned here have been recommended to me by librarians… People should listen to librarians more.
NL: What’s the first book that you remember reading?
KH: I don’t remember the name of it… but there was a woman on the cover with the most luscious apple you could imagine. And isn’t that really all books? An invitation to something delicious?
NL: What’s your least favorite book?
KH: Anything written by anyone who thinks they have all the answers.