First Draft: Libba Bray (Re-Release of Episodes #18 and 19)
Libba Bray, author of New York Times best-selling series A Great and Terrible Beauty, Printz award-winner Going Bovine, and genuinely terrifying historical paranormal The Diviners, and more. The episode originally released on Nov 3, 2014, and Nov 6, 2014.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode
Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa
Aaron Sorkin worked at the concessions at the theater for years and only heard dialogue for years and that influenced him
Harold Pinter is a writer who knows when to take a pause in dialogue
The Thin Man, Bringing Up Baby, The Marx brothers influenced her sense of comedy
Neil Simon plays (Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park: A Comedy in Three Acts, and The Odd Couple: A Comedy in Three Acts)
Peter Marks, theater critic of the New York Times and the Washington Post
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (and Tiger Beat has a song called “Holden Caufield is Not an Asshole”), A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath were the only examples of “YA” that Libba had growing up
Laurie Halse Anderson, David Levithan, Rachel Cohn, Francesca Lia Block (listen to her First Draft interview here), and Angela Johnson were some of the writers that Libba discovered when she dove into YA fiction
Aaron Zimmerman, who runs the non-profit New York Writers Coalition
Ann Brashares (author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Melissa Sinnet, and
Cecily von Ziegesar (author of Gossip Girl) were Libba’s editors at Alloy Book Publishing
Holly Black, Newberry Honoree and New York Times bestselling author the Spiderwick Chronicles, The Curse Workers, Magesterium, and her most recent series, Folk of Air (listen to her First Draft interview here)
“Miles and Miles of No Man’s Land,” Libba Bray’s post about depression
Stephanie Perkins‘ blog post about depression (hear Stephanie and me on a panel together in this First Draft episode)
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