Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Crown of Thunder, the second book in the Beasts Made of Night series--which is out now--talks about the audacity of new writers’ ideas, writing himself and his family into a book for the first time, and being an award-winning witness.
LINKS AND TOPICS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
The Los Angeles TImes Festival of Books (listen to my interview with the festival’s Associate Director of Events Programming, Maret Orliss, here)
Tochi listened Korn and Linkin Park in middle school just like everyone else at his Prep school
Whenever he needs to be uplifted he looks up The Wikipedia entry of Nigerian-Americans
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Renee Ahdieh, author of The Wrath and the Dawn series and Flame in the Mist duology (listen to her First Draft interview here)
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo (manga)
Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic artist
Sabaa Tahir, author of the Ember In The Ashes series (listen to her First Draft episode here)
Marie Lu, author of the Legend, The Young Elites, and Warcross series (listen to her First Draft podcast interviews here and here)
Leigh Bardugo, author of the Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows series, and her upcoming book, Ninth House (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here)
Black Panther (movie), Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (listen to her First Draft podcast here) are all current media with in the Afrofuturistic genre
John Cheever, author of The Stories of John Cheever
Mad Men (TV show)
Paul Thomas Anderson (filmmaker)
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