The State of the Library With Amanda Oliver

First Draft Episode #350: Amanda Oliver

Amanda Oliver, former librarian and author of OVERDUE: Reckoning
with the Public Library.


Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Reza Aslan, professor at U.C. Riverside’s MFA program and
author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth




Claire Comstock Gay, author of weekly horoscopes for New York
magazine’s The Cut, and her debut book about astrology,
Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars,




Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit




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Ibi Zoboi, New York Times bestselling author
of National Book Award Finalist American Street, Pride, My
Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich and co-author with prison
reform activist Yusef Salaam of Punching the Air. She joins
us to talk about her first work of non-fiction Star Child: A
Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler. Hear
her First Draft interview here.




Kekla Magoon, award-winning
author of many novels and nonfiction books for kids and
teens, including How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone,
and her newest, Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther
Party’s Promise to the People. Hear her First Draft interview
here.




Helen O’Hara, film critic,
editor-at-large for Empire magazine and co-host of the Empire
film podcast, talks about her newest non-fiction, Women vs
Hollywood: The Fall and RIse of Women in Film and its
accompanying podcast, Women vs Hollywood With Helen O’Hara.
Hear her First Draft interview here.




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