Steaks or GTFO with Rick Yancy, Cindy Pon, Justin Reynolds, and Sarah Enni

First Draft Episode #220: Rick Yancy, Cindy Pon, Justin
Reynolds, and Sarah Enni LIVE at YA-Hoo Fest

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YA-Hoo Fest kicked off with this LIVE recording of the First
Draft with Sarah Enni on Sept. 21, 2019. Hear writers talk about
plotting the end of humanity, domed Chinese playgrounds,
reef-keeping, the universal experience of grief. Featuring: Rick
Yancey, New York Times bestselling author of the Fifth Wave
series, the Monstrumologist series, and more; Cindy Pon, Want and
its sequel Ruse, the Silver Phoenix series and more; Justin A.
Reynolds, debut author of The Opposite of Always; and Sarah Enni,
author of Tell Me Everything.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Storming Area 51 is something I cannot ever talk about
enough. Did you know it is obliquely tied to Tom Delonge,
former guitarist for Blink 182?!?!




The Fermi Paradox concerns the probability of there being
intelligent life in the universe




The Stephen Hawkings quote that begins The Fifth Wave is, “If
Aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as
when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which
didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.”




Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty Inside
the IRS is Rick Yancey’s memoir all about working at the IRS




The movie Groundhog Day  is a classic, you should watch
it!




William Goldman is an esteemed screenwriter (of Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and The
Princess Bride) and novelist (of The Princess Bride: S.
Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure,
Marathon Man and more).




The Roger Ebert review of The Fifth Wave movie




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guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818)
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Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author
of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture
Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator
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Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender;
John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and
frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their
careers and creative works.



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