Integrating All Your Selves With Libba Bray

First Draft Episode Re-release: Libba Bray (Eps
(#18 and 19)

Libba Bray, author of New York Times best-selling series A Great
and Terrible Beauty, Printz award-winner Going Bovine, and
genuinely terrifying historical paranormal The Diviners, among
others, joins me to talk about having her rock collection stolen
as a kid, that one time Wes Anderson helped stage a play she
wrote, and how growing up in Texas set her head at a certain
tilt. The episode originally released on Nov 3, 2014, and Nov 6,
2014.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa




Citizen Kane




Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe




Aaron Sorkin worked at the concessions at the theater for
years and only heard dialogue for years and that influenced
him




Harold Pinter is a writer who knows when to take a pause in
dialogue




The Thin Man, Bringing Up Baby, The Marx brothers influenced
her sense of comedy




Neil Simon plays (Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park: A
Comedy in Three Acts, and The Odd Couple: A Comedy in Three
Acts)




Singin’ In The Rain




Peter Marks, theater critic of the New York Times and the
Washington Post




New York International Film Festival




Mawkish




Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (and Tiger Beat has a
song called “Holden Caufield is Not an Asshole”), A Separate
Peace by John Knowles, and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath were
the only examples of “YA” that Libba had growing up




Laurie Halse Anderson, David Levithan, Rachel Cohn, Francesca
Lia Block (listen to her First Draft interview here), and
Angela Johnson were some of the writers that Libba discovered
when she dove into YA fiction




Aaron Zimmerman, who runs the non-profit New York Writers
Coalition




Ann Brashares (author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling
Pants), Melissa Sinnet, and


Cecily von Ziegesar (author of Gossip Girl) were Libba’s
editors at Alloy Book Publishing




Sweet Sixteen




Holly Black, Newberry Honoree and New York Times bestselling
author the Spiderwick Chronicles, The Curse Workers,
Magesterium, and her most recent series, Folk of Air (listen
to her First Draft interview here)




“Miles and Miles of No Man’s Land,” Libba Bray’s post about
depression




Stephanie Perkins‘ blog post about depression (hear
Stephanie and me on a panel together in this First Draft
episode)




Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry




Carrie by Stephen King


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