Sara Farizan, author of If You Could Be Mine and Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, talks about her newest novel, Here to Stay, out now! Sara talks about love as a human rights issue, writing action sequences, and why she chose not to write in Charles Barkley’s voice.
LINKS AND TOPICS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
New England Mobile Book Fair, a local indie warehouse book store near where Sara grew up
Sara read James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl when she was a child and imagined living in a giant peach
Sara always wanted to write television for children and was a huge fan of the Sesame Street (TV show)
In college, Sara wrote spec scripts for existing TV shows like The Office (TV show)
John Irving, author of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (listen to her First Draft interview here)
Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, I Believe in a Thing Called Love and The Way You Make Me Feel and Since You Asked (Listen to Maurene’s first, second, and third episodes of First Draft)
Books, Inc. (bookstore in SF)
In Here to Stay, Reggie Miller (former NBA player and commentator) and Kevin Harlan (NBA commentator) are the Bijan (Main Character) favorite NBA commentators and give commentary throughout the story
Sara mentions The murder of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha in Chapel Hill, N.C. and Matthew Shepard’s Death in 1998 in her author’s note for Here to Stay
Deah Barakat wrote Stephen Curry’s (NBA player) name on his shoes
Charles Barkley (NBA player)
Daria Morgendorffer from the Daria TV show
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