About Wheeler:
Jacob Wheeler is the Founding Editor and Publisher of the Glen Arbor Sun as well as the Faculty Advisor at Northwestern Michigan University for the student paper White Pine Press. Jacob is also an activist for environmental and social issues and has worked with several different agencies, FLOW and Groundwork among them. His first book, “Between Light and Shadow” (2011) covered Guatemala’s child adoption industry. His second book is “Angel of the Garbage Dump: How Hanley Denning Changed the World, One Child at a Time”. We had the pleasure of interviewing him on November 22nd and thought we would pose the following questions to him as well. Enjoy and thank you Jacob, for writing this wonderfully touching book.
Author Interview
On your nightstand now: As Long as I Know You, by Anne-Marie Oomen
Favorite book when you were a child: Chronicles of Narnia, which my mother read to me.
Your top five authors: (in no particular order)
- Francisco Goldman
- Russell Banks
- Jim Harrison
- Norman Mailer
- George Orwell
Book you’ve faked reading: Most books by James Joyce
Book you’re an evangelist for: Open Veins of Latin American — Eduardo Galeano
Book you’ve bought for the cover: Perfect Storm
Book you hid from your parents: My parents are radical old hippies. No reason to hide anything from them.
Book that changed your life: Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five”
Favorite line from a book: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Five books you’ll never part with:
- Byline Ernest Hemingway
- Smiling Through the Apocalypse
- Bury My heart at Wounded Knee
- A People’s History of the United States
- The Naked Dead
Book you most want to read again for the first time: 100 Years of Solitude & Catch-22
