Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired With Mary H.K. Choi

First Draft Episode #291: Mary H.K. Choi

Mary H. K. Choi, New York Times bestselling author of Emergency
Contact and Permanent Record and her newest YA, Yolk, answers
listener questions.


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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Listen to Mary H K Choi’s first appearance on First Draft
here




Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator of Gilmore Girls




Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, the filmmaker brothers behind
Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou? and many
more




Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night, Edinburgh,
and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays




Famous diarist Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of
Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947




The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend




Elana K. Arnold’s Revision Season




Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh




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Christina Hammonds-Reed,
debut author of The Black Kids, who appeared on First Draft
in conversation with 2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young
People’s Literature, Jason Reynolds, whose many books include
All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely [listen to
his First Draft interview here]), As Brave as You, For Every
One, the Track series, Look Both Ways, Stamped: Racism,
Anti-Racism, and You and Long Way Down, which received a
Newberry Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King
Honor.




Elizabeth Acevedo, New York
Times bestselling author of National Book Award and Printz
Award-winning The Poet X, With the Fire on High and Clap When
You Land.




Zan Romanoff, journalist
and author of A Song to Take the World Apart, and Grace and
the Fever, and Look.




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