First Draft Episode #343: Abdi Nazemian

Abdi Nazemian, screenwriter and author of Stonewall Honor book Like a Love Story talks about his most recent YA, The Chandler Legacies.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

Abdi’s first First Draft interview
TIME’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time
Rebecca Serle, author of The Dinner List, In Five Years, and the forthcoming One Italian Summer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The White Lotus (TV show)
The Gilded Age (TV show)
Ordinary Joe (TV show now streaming on Hulu and Peacock)
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

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