First Draft Episode #296: David Arnold

David Arnold is the New York Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland, Kids of Appetite, and The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik, talks about his latest genre-bending YA sci-fi, The Electric Kingdom, out now!

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
LOST (TV show)
X-Files (TV show)
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Courtney C. Stevens, author of Faking Normal, Dress Codes for Small Towns, and more. Listen to her First Draft interview here.
Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie-winning author of Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, and Salt to the Sea. She talked about her newest novel, Fountains of Silence, in a recent First Draft interview.
Hootie and the Blowfish (band)
Alanis Morissette (musician)
Elliott Smith (musician)
Switched on Pop, a podcast about the making and meaning of popular music hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding and produced by Vulture
“The Culture Warped Pop, For Good,” by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding in The New York Times
Director and screenwriter Michel Gondry
Arrival (movie)
Eric Heisserer (screenwriter of Arrival)
Ted Chiang, author of short story collections including Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others, which includes Story of Your Life, the basis for the film Arrival
Jóhann Jóhannsson (score for Arrival)
Hildur Guonadóttir (musician)
Slow Meadow (band)

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Anna Carey, author of the speculative/genre-bending This is Not The Jess Show and of The Eve Trilogy (Eve, Once, Rise) and the Blackbird series (Blackbird, Deadfall).
David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, and speculative fiction juggernaut Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares.
Justin Reynolds, author of character-driven stories with speculative twists, The Opposite of Always and Early Departures.

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