Ep 171: Melissa Albert

Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel
Wood and its forthcoming sequel, as well as Tales from the
Hinterlands, talks about stuffing her debut book with secret book
recommendations, the borderlessness of being a young reader, and
loving angry girls in fiction.


 


Melissa Albert Show Notes


Vera Nabokov


The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin


Lolita


Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger


The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis


Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams


Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner


Wise Child by Monica Furlong


Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie


Hook (movie)


Charles de Lint


Helen Oyeyemi


Philip Pullman’s Grimm Brothers translation


Roshani Chokshi’s forthcoming trio of novellas


Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado


Kelly Link


Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo (listen to her First Draft
episodes here and here)


Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs (listen to his First Draft
interview here)


Flannery O’Connor


Time Out Chicago


A Spark of Light (Barnes & Noble exclusive edition)


Barnes & Noble YA Blog


The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins


Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor


Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell


Feed by M. T. Anderson


Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (listen to her First
Draft interview here)


Francesca Lia Block (listen to her First Draft interview here)


His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler


Working Partners (work for hire book company in England)


George Saunders essay about what writers really do when they
write


Sadie by Courtney Summers (listen to her First Draft interview
here)


The Cruel Prince by Holly Black


The Twilight Zone (TV show)


Radiance by Catherynne Valente


The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien


Romeo + Juliet (movie)


Love Lists, a blog post by Stephanie Perkins


Emma Chastain, writer


The North Texas Teen Book Festival


Welcome to Night Vale (podcast)


The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman


The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke


Ira Glass
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (listen to her First
Draft interviews here and here)