Fun is Important With Catie Disabato

First Draft Episode #289: Catie Disabato

Catie Disabato, author of adult literary novels The Ghost Network
and her newest, U Up?


Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will, Await Your Reply, and Stay
Awake was Catie’s creative writing professor at Oberlin




Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling
author of California and Woman No. 17. Edan’s latest project
is Mothers Before, a collection of essays and photographs
based on the popular Instagram Mothers Before, which Edan
created. She is also the co-host, with fellow writer Amelia
Morris, of the podcast Mom Rage.




The New York Times review of Catie’s debut novel, The Ghost
Network




Kirsten Reach, former editor at Melville House and current
fiction editor at the Kenyon Review




“Catie Disabato’s Novel ‘U Up?’ Renders LA’s Magic In Dark
Bars And Chaotic Text Messages,” an interview with Catie by
Zan Romanoff in CNMN magazine. Zan Romanoff, journalist and
author of A Song to Take the World Apart, and Grace and the
Fever, appeared most recently on First Draft to discuss her
latest YA novel, Look. Listen to her interview here.




Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker




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Edan Lepucki, New York
Times bestselling author of California and Woman No. 17.
Edan’s latest project is Mothers Before, a collection of
essays and photographs based on the popular Instagram Mothers
Before, which Edan created. She is also the co-host, with
fellow writer Amelia Morris, of the podcast Mom Rage.




Rufi Thorpe, author of The
Girls from Corona del Mar and Dear Fang: With Love, and The
Knockout Queen.




Miranda Popkey, essayist
and debut author of Topics of Conversation.




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