Ep 168: Nina LaCour 2.0

Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, winner of the 2018 Printz
Award, and other contemporary YA titles like Everything Leads to
You and Hold Still, joins me to talk about how she’s expanding
her teaching role with The Slow Novel Lab, and an exciting new
podcast venture called Keeping a Notebook.


 


Nina LaCour Show Notes


Nina LaCour’s first First Draft interview


Lorde’s album Pure Heroine


We Are Okay


Nina’s interview on Yin Chang’s podcast, 88 Cups of Tea


Alfred Hitchcock


The Castle of Otranto, a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole


Virginia Woolf


Jane Eyre


Wuthering Heights


Frida Kahlo (Artist)


Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour


Keeping a Notebook (and the episode featuring Sarah Enni)


The Slow Novel Lab


“On Keeping a Notebook” by Joan Didion


Sara Zarr’s podcast This Creative Life


NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)


Save the Cat


SquareSpace


MailChimp


Nina’s short story in the Foreshadow YA online YA anthology
collection


Writing the Breakout Novel: Worksheets by Donald Maass


Hamline low residency MFA program