A Fragile Tension with Ruta Sepetys

First Draft Episode #217: Ruta Sepetys

Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling and Carnegie-winning
author of Between Shades of Gray, Out of the Easy, and Salt to
the Sea, talks about her newest novel, Fountains of Silence.


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Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode



I was watching Goodfellas, and not having a great time, until
I got sidetracked by reading all about the Lufthansa heist,
which is fascinating!




One of Ruta’s first jobs in L.A. was as an intern for
songwriter Desmond Child. He encouraged Ruta to start her own
business managing musicians.




Ruta’s op-ed for NPR about when her book Between Shades of
Gray came out at the same time as E.L. James’s 50 Shades of
Grey, and many readers purchased the wrong title




The Pact of Forgetting, enacted in 1975, in which Spain vowed
to forget the past as it transitioned from a dictatorship to
democracy.




General Francisco Franco built Valley of the Fallen as a
memorial to those who died in the Spanish Civil War, and he
was buried there. Spain has exhumed and relocated his body.




Hear Ruta talk in depth about her interview style with Yin
Chang on 88 Cups of Tea


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