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📣 Clips & Interviews 📣
I had SO much fun talking to Traci from The Stacks podcast!
Hear the episode about my reading life, and listen as Traci and I go in on Educated by Tara Westover. The Stacks is amazing and you should listen -- find the show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
Publisher's Weekly put together an awesome pictoral review of YA-hoo Fest, the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based literary festival where I recorded a live episode of First Draft last month! It was such an incredible festival full of passionate planners and supersmart readers. If you're in the area, put it on your calendar for next year!
Stay tuned to these spaces for some upcoming appearances by yours truly:
Reading Glasses, where co-hosts Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara discuss tips and tricks for reading better and getting more out of your literary experiences.
on Spotify
On The JV Club with Janet Varney, where actress and professional funnywoman Janet talks to people about their adolescent lives, and anything else that comes up! Plus: there's MASH!
on Spotify
🎧 Recent First Draft Episodes 🎧
Renée Ahdieh
Renee Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, The Rose and the Dagger, the Flame in the Mist duology, talks about her latest series, which kicks off with The Beautiful, out October 8.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of critically acclaimed books, including National Book Award finalist Ghost, Newberry and Printz-honored Long Way Down, Coretta Scott King Honoree As Brave as You, and his latest, middle grade Look Both Ways, which was just named to the National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Barudgo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadow and Bone series, the Six of Crows duology, and the King of Scars duology, discusses her first adult novel, Ninth House.
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
Kass Morgan
Kass Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of The 100 and Light Years (a.k.a. Mallory Kass, senior editor at Scholastic). Supernova, the sequel to Light Years, is out now!
Listen to our interview here, on iTunes, or on Spotify!
📌 Recommendations 📌
🎙 Podcasts 🎙
Dolly Parton's America: I'm fascinated by the premise of this show -- a nine-part series examining how Dolly Parton (the person, the icon, the music, the personality) reflects how much America has changed over her decades-long career. It's from the people at WNYC who always make great stuff. Definitely check it out!
Stranglehold: Public radio reporters in New Hampshire examine how that tiny state became positioned to hold the first primary in the nation, and how they've managed to hold on to that tradition.
🔊 Audiobooks 🔊
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow: The Harvey Weinstein story was explosive when it was broken by Farrow in The New Yorker and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey in The New York Times - so much so that the three share a Pulitzer Prize for their work. But unlike Kantor and Twohey's She Said, which includes additional reporting on the story and an dive into how Weinstein tried to thwart their investigation, Farrow's Catch and Kill gets personal. Farrow writes about the year-long fight with his bosses at NBC (who wanted to kill the story and eventually let it go to the New Yorker) and Weinstein's efforts to track and intimidate him, with the suspense of a crime novel, and the gentle humor of someone trying to process one of the most stressful years of their life. It's a portal into the world of a modern, investigative reporter who fought for his journalistic ideals. Also, he does all the accents.
📽️ Film & TV 📽️
No-review list of television, movies & documentaries I've watched recently!
Jojo Rabbit
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
Schitt's Creek
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
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