Meet Bob Lunn of the Kansas City P.L., MO Bob Lunn Review Count: 110 From his oeuvre: Denise Mina’s Field of Blood Megan Abbott’s Queenpin Joe R. Lansdale’s Leather Maiden

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Bob Lunn, an LJ fiction reviewer since 1998, introduces himself: "My name is Bob, and I am an English major. I guess that will always be true, but I managed to overcome that youthful indiscretion and have lived a full life despite it." In fact, he’s been a government documents librarian, a reference librarian, and a fiction/literature librarian, finally finding himself today as an audiovisual librarian at Kansas City Public Library in Missouri. He offers film programs at the library ranging from a John Wayne festival to movies with a Kansas City connection, like In Cold Blood. He explains the added allure of the programs at his library in particular, "Since the Kansas City Public Library about four years ago relocated to a former bank building, what was the safety deposit box vault was turned into a small, state-of-the-art movie theater." But back to his LJ specialty, fiction. Bob explains his birthplace by way of novels: "I was born in antediluvian New Orleans somewhere amid John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer." A self-proclaimed Anglophile, Bob has considered P.G. Wodehouse "a favorite from the time when one of his stories was read to us in my Jesuit high school." He found copies of his books in London’s famous bookshop, Foyle’s, for a couple of pounds and now kicks himself for not buying the whole lot. He and his "long-suffering" wife of 25 years try to visit Britain once a year.